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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS.
Methods of Purchase and Legal Safe
guards.

The season for the purchase of COM
mercial fertilizers is at hand. As
usual the Vermont market is flooded
with a multitude of brands. There
are goods of high and Of low degree
brands rich in plant food and those
which are NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. which
are costly and those which are cheap
that is to say, apparently cheap.
The Vermont trade in this class of
goods approximates S400, 600 yearly.
Three fifths of this sum pays for plant
food. Two-tifths goes to the manu-
facturer, the railroad magnate and
the selling agent.
Several methods for the purchase of
plant food are in vogue. The most
common may be denominated the
haphazard system. Under this sys-
tenn the buyer chooses in accordance
with name, agents claims and cheap
ness and makes no attempt to get that
which fits his plant and soil needs. A
state law requires manufacturers to
print the composition of their goods
on each package and also to make the
statement good in fact. The Vermont
experiment station each spring gives
the price at which plant food may be
bought; prints the analyses of the sun
dry brands, thus comparing manufac-
turers' promises and guarantees; gives
with each analysis the price at which
the plant food it contains is purchas-
able. The buyer who wishes to rise
above haphazard methods should sean
these figures-which it may be re-
marked are accompanied by full and
clear explanatory matter-should con-
slider the adaptation to his needs of
the sundry fertilizers offered, and
finally note whether the price asked
is or is not exorbitant.
There is hardly any line of bust
ness in the United States which has
so many legal safeguards applied to il
as does the fertilizer trade. So far as
composition is concerned there Is
little room for continued deception.
Whether the price asked accords with
value contained is another story, and
one with which the law has nothing
to do. 1t is but fair to the manufac-
turers to say that the larger proper
ton OF them would prefer to sell good
fertilizers, but that competition and
be it noted-the demands of the farm
err for a cheap line of goods, have
forced them TO include in their lists
good many low-grade brands. The
purchase of goods carrying less than
twelve dollars worth Of plant food to
the ton is seldom wise Experiment
Station Bulletin.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
Former Vermonter Candidate for Dart
mouth COLLEGE Trustee.

Henry button Pierce, class of ~,
was born in Cavendish, Vt, in 1916.
AT the age of Is he enlisted in the 7th
VT. Veteran Volunteers, participating
in the battles of Spanish Fort and
Mobile. lie was mustered out in
July, 1865. lie fitted for college at
Newbury, VT, and entered Dart
mouth in 1868.
He is now Of Chicago and is one of
the gentlemen prominently named by
the western alumni as a candidate at
the next alumni election for the posi-
ton of trustee Of the college. After
graduating from college he was for a
time principal of the Toledo High
school. From 1875 to 1899 he was
western manager of the Vermont
Marble Co. at Toledo, and has held
the same position at Chicago since
1899. His residence is in the town Of
Cicero, a suburb OF Chicago, with
population of twenty-eight thousand.
He was president OF this municipality
for two terms, in 1894 and 1895. lie
was also president of the Dartmouth
Alumni association Of Chicago in
1898. lie is now serving his third
term as president of the board OF ed
ucation. He is also a trustee OF the
Scovile library and director Of the
Oak Park Historical society.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
AROUND THE CAMPFIRE.

Ira II. Dayton, late of Go. T., 4th
Ohio Vol. Inf. Mexican war, died Fri
day at the Vermont Soldiers Home.
He was admitted to the Home April
u, 1892, from Middlebury, Vt. He
has been cared for in the hospital for
the past five years and his death was
caused from old age and the grip.
Peter Rose, 50 years Of age, died in
the Soldiers Home hospital Wednes-
day Of last week from heart failure
caused by old age. lie served in Co.
II, Second Vermont Volunteers, and
was admitted from Montpelier in
April, 1894. Ira Dayton, a veteran
of the Mexican war, is quite low in
the hospital. Roses was death liz
at the Home since it first started.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
Nermont Pensions.

Increase, George r. Thurston,
IS to So; William c. Jacobs, New
Haven Mills, ga to SIT; Leroy +.
Bingham, Burlington, So to $40; Will
liam Mcneil, Shelburne, SO to $40;
original, widows, etc, special acc.
March %, Andalusia S. Osgood, Mill
ton Boro, Sl2; original, Samuel 5.
Stoddard, East Barnet, So.
Original, William M. Currier, Is.
land Pond, 81; increase, Oscar b.
Nelson, Rutland, 50 to s.; Robert
Morris, Castleton, So to Sl2.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12

Eczema, scald head, hives, itchiness OF
the skin OF any sort, instantly relieved,
permanently cured. Doans Ointment.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12

.JeIl-O, The New Dessert,
pleRses an the family. -Four navorsi- Lemon
orange, Raspberry add strawberry At your gro
GERS lee. TRY " TODAY
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
RHEUMATISM

Is due to acid poison which gains access to the
rgans to carry off and keep the system clear Of all n
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-12
DISlOPtS Muscles,
ShattePS Nerves.
StiiieRS joints.

through the general circulation deposited the joints muscles and
Rheumatism attack with such suddenness and severity
active helpless and beddden with distorted limbs and shaft
developing with slight wandering pains enough make
dency such and finally become chronic
Like other blood diseases Rheumatism often inherited and
food insufficient clothing anything calculated TO impair the health
early life but often until middle later In whaev
nherited Rheumatism is Strictly a
and nimen other external treatment reach the trouble Ne
and mercury and the mineral salts which the doctors always
ruin the digestion and break down the constitution
remedy which builds the general health and the tin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
KILLED WITH A STAyE.
seventeen-Year-old Chicago Lad
Avenged Insults to His Mother.

Chicago. March 2s.-Albert Stedge,
II years old, avenged the insults cast
upon his mother, Mrs. Bridget Stedge,
4414 Ashland avenue, by William Hob
son, 3 boarder, by dealing Hobson a
fatal blow over the head with a barrel
stave. Leaving his victim dead on the
sidewalk in front of the house, the boy
went to his room and was soon asleep.
He was aroused an hour later by the
arrival of the police.
: The murder was the outcome of a
quarrel between Mrs. Stedge and Hob
son and all the people living in the
house, thirteen in number, were routed
out of bed and taken to the police sta
ton. where all but two were released.
Hobson. who had been living at the
Stedge boarding house nearly a year,
came home intoxicated and quarreled
with Mrs. Stedge. Albert interfered and
Hobson left the house
The enraged son followed and the
fight was renewed outside. Albert pick
ed up a barrel stave lying on the ground
and struck Hobson on the head. Hobson
fell and Albert went inside the house.
In a few minutes Albert went out to
learn the condition of his antagonist.
Hefound him dead and returning to his
mother told her what had happened
Agreeing to keep the strife between
them a secret they went to bed, leaving
Hobson's body where it had fallen. The
stave had struck Hobson just behind
the left ear, penetrating the skull.
Michael COSgrove stumbled over the
body and recognizing Hobson notified
the police with the result that Stedge
and his mother were arretsed. The
youthful murderer exhibited the utmost
calmneSS throughout his examination
by the police and at no time did he ex-
press any sorrow for the deed
Hobson was an Englishman and is
said to have a wife and two children in
England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
STONE MEN STRIKE.
Millionaire Contractors Take OFF Goats
and Work in the Yards.

Chicago. March 2S.-Ten wealthy
stone contractors, whose firms have an
aggregate capital of more than 81, OOO,-
000 are working in the yards of the
John TAFT Cut Stone company at Thir-
ty-fourth street and La Sale avenue.
They are engaged in hard manual Ia
Dor, as an evidence of their loyalty to
common cause.
Two months ago the journeymen
stone cutters were locked out of the
yards of the TAFT company on account
of the differences between the associa-
tons of contractors and workmen Mr.
TAFT abided by the decision of his as
sociates, hoping the trouble would be
settled at an early date, or soon enough
for him to finish a contract he had on
hand.
When it became apparent that the
differences might not be adjusted for
several months, Mr.. TAFT became
alarmed. He saw he was in danger of
losing a large amount of money if ne
did not fill his contract on time, and
he appealed to his fellow contractors
for assistance. They responded in the
only way open to them, by putting on
aprons and going to work in the yards
The contract viii be finished in time
and Mr.. Tait's money saved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
FAILED TO AGREE.
Jury In the Case of Hay and Sloan
Discharged.

Camden, N. J., March 28.-After hav-
ing been out since 4 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, the jury in the case of Will
liam H. Hay and Howard K. Sloan, the
Philadelphia newspaper men who were
tried for conspiring to InJure the repu-
tation of Eugene Darnell of this city,
came into court shortly after 10 o'clock
this morning and announced that they
had failed to agree. They were dis
charged.
The reporters will probably be tried
again at the next term of court which
convenes next Tuesday.
The trial of Hay and Sloan was the
result of the publication last Septem-
Der in a Philadelphia newspaper, of an
alleged confession by Eli Shaw, of this
city, that he had killed his mother and
grandmother. The two women were
murdered at their home in October, 1897,
and Shaw was arrested charged with
the crime. He was tried on two indict-
ments and acquitted both times. The
newspaper story written by Hay and
Sloan stated that Shaw had finally been
induced to confess and that he had i'm
plicated Eugene Darne1 as an accessory
after the fact.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
ALL HARMONIOUS.
Rockefeller Says There Has Been No
Trouble In His Church.

New York, March 2S.-There has been
printed g story from Cleveland to the
effect that a split had occurred in the
Euclid Avenue Baptist church, for which
John D. Rockefeller was held RESPONSE
BILE. Last winter, it was said the pastor
of the church, Rev. II. c. Applegarth,
preached a sermon in which he made
some pointed comments which so irri-
tated Mr.. Rockefeller that the latter
withdrew his financial support from the
Applegarth surprised his congregation
by announcing that he had accepted a
call to a church in Boston, but at the
urgent request of a majority of the
congregation he subsequently decided to
defer acceptance of the new call and
might remain in Cleveland as the pastor
of a new church.
At Mr.. Rockefeller's Office it was said
that the relations between the Rev. Mr..
Applegarth and Mr.. Rockefeller were
still as cordial as they had always been,
that Mr.. Rockefeller had not ceased his
contributions to the Euclid Avenue
church, that he had never heard until
yesterday of the alleged references
made to him in Mr.. Applegarth'S SER
mon and that, so far from Mr.. Apple
garth's resignation from the pastorate
of the Cleveland church being a sudden
act it had been in contemplation by him
for several months, a church in Buffalo
having extended a call to him and on
his declination of it having sent a com
mittee, who finally induced him to re-
consider his refusal and agree to take
charge of their church.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
BISHOP POTTER'S VIEWS
On the Philippine Situation Regard
ing Church Work.

New York. March 2S.-Writing in the
Churchman on 1.-THE Religious Situation
in the Philippines" Bishop Potter says:
1T may be asked: 1t is worth While to
send missionaries to the Filipinos? Are
they not largely, as we have been told,
a Christian people, with churches,
schools. ministers of religion and the
like? Is it worth while to intrude upon
them teachers and teachings which
they have been taught to regard as of
the devil (some of the recent pronun-
ciamentos of the archbishop of Manila
are in this connection and to American
ears, literary curiosities), and SO to be-
gin the work of a higher civilization by
inflaming religious prejudiceS and by
awakening violent religious controver-
sizes?
4 confess it seems to me that this
will be a question for the Filipinos as
American citizens themselves, to an
swer. If they want such teachers, then
certainly under cur system OF govern
ment they are entitled to have them
and no wise American, under whatever
pretext, will attempt to interfere with
their doing so. Already, as Chaplain
Pierce has told church people in the
east, there is a remarkable interest in
the work of the church, not only among
Filipinos, but among Chinese and 9th
ers and the church has qualifications
for mission work in those islands which
other Christian bodies have with rare
magnanimity recognized But beyond
what is already under way a denomin-
ational propaganda of various types
would at present be only misleading
and confusing.
1.-The Filipinos must first understand
what Americanism means. They are at
present so largely in the dark as to our
institutions and those great ideas of po-
litical and religious freedom upon which
they rest. that the. perfectly well meant
but not always Just er cOnsiderate pre-
sentation of the truth by those whose
attitude is enc of strong antagonism to
the teachings and institutions of Rome
would only be infiammatory and unset
thing and might end in a situation in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
SENDOFF FOR SCOTT.
Allen County Convention Congratu.
lates Party on His Candidacy.

Allen county Republicans in conven-
ton yesterday gave Charles F. Scott an
endorsement for congressman at large,
in the following language, which is of a
character seldom found in such docu-
ments:
Resolved, That we, the Republicans of
Allen county, take pleasure and pride
in being able to present to the Repub-
lican party of the state for it's candi-
liant fellow citizen, Charles F. Scott,
and we congratulate the party upon the
fortunate opportunity which presents
itself to secure for its candidate for that
office such a polished orator, able legis-
lator and upright, polished and Chris
tian gentleman, and the delegates of
this convention to Topeka are instructed
to use all honorable means to secure
his nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
Method Employed Restores Voice OF
Man Recently Stricken.

Chicago, March 2S.-vito Paoletto, the
italian saloonkeeper, who lost the pow
er of speech soon after the murder of
his partner, Michael Giavito, with which
he is charged, made two attempts to
commit suicide. He failed but the meth
cd employed restored his voice. Paolet-
to has only one leg ard uses a crutch.
While listening to the testimony of wit
nesses who appeared before the coron-
ers jury and charged him with the
murder, PaolettO put the lower end of
the crutch in his mouth and lurched
forward. He was only slightly injured.
A few minutes later the accused man
repeated the attempt to end his life.
The attendants then decided that Pao-
letto would hereafter have to hobble
about without the assistance of
crutch and it was taken from him. One
of the physicians who examined him
SAYS that the shock produced in Paolet-
to's throat by falling on the end of the
crutch restored circulation in the re-
gion of the paralyzed vocal cords and
the organs We're again able to perform
their functions.
Previous to the coroner's inquest Pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
BIG ARMOR PRICES
Asked by Contractors May Defeat
New Battleships Bill.

New York, March ga special to
the Times from Washington says: The
naval authorities are watching with
considerable interest and some fear for
the action of congress on the aprpopria-
ton for naval increase. Some of the
departments express the opinion that
the bill may be lost. The last appro-
prIatiOn was squeezed through by a
narrow margin at the close of the ses-
sion and this is by no means uncom-
mon.
Naval officers interested in the fate of
the appropriation are strongly inclined
to believe that this years appropriation
for new battleships will be left until
near the adjournment and some of them
are net hopeful that it will be passed
at all
No one doubts that on the mere ques-
ton OF whether the United States shall
have enough battleships or not the ap-
preparation would go through with a.
rush But the old question about the
price armor still retains it's power to
cause trouble and while there is no OPP
position to the BILL there is so much
haggling about the cost of armor that
it may result IN no appropriation at all
IF it goes through said a naval Of
f1cer, sit will be on the day of adjourn
ment in all probability and with only a
few votes to spare. But there are so
many different views in congress about
buying armor that they are likely to
end by not authorizing the purchase of
any and thereby defeat the bill"
The cid idea of having the govern
ment establish an armor plant of its
own is reviewed and some members OF
congress favor it if the compan's
which now supply the government re-
fuse to come down to their idea of the
right price. The trouble is that there
is not as yet any agreement as to what
the right price is
There is some talk to the effect that
the companies might be willing TO re-
duec the cost without any such menace.
but this is always coupled with the
mention of conditions which are not
likely to secure powerful enough sup
port in congress sto insure their adop-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

"a short time ago was called to
patient who had been given up by his
physician. his stomach would not bear
food and consequently, he got no nour-
1shment and was slowly dying from ex-
haustion. He was reduced to skin and
bones. Immediately put him on Grape
Nuts food and Postum Cereal Food Cof-
fee, he could keep both articles on his
stomach and neither caused him any
pain. He has been using both the food
and the cereal coffee and has gained Sc.
rapidly that I feel he will be out of bed
In about week" DR.. C. Leutwein.
The reason a delicate stomach can
take Grape-Nuts food is that it is pre-
dfgested by natural means during It's
preparation, and even a small babe can
handle it as it causes no heavy work by
the stomach and digestive apparatus.
on the contrary. being predigested, it is
quickly assimilated into blood and It's
sue
The food as we'll as the Postum Food
Coffee contains elements selected from
the grains of the field that are of first
Importance to the human body in nour-
4shment andeUqETAOI NETAOINNNN
fishing ana rebuilding it.
All grocers keep Grape-Nuts and Pos
tuna.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-28
HEIR TO MILLIONS.
Servant Girl in california Will Get
Portion of an English Estate.

New York, March 2S.-Miss Elsie Tyson,
of Humboldt, Cal, has sailed for Eng
land with an Australian attorney TO as
sist in establishing the claim of the chill
dren and grandchildren of John Tyson
who died in New Providence, n. J., thirty
years ago. to the thirteen million dollar
estate of James Tyson, who died in Mel
bourne in 1888.
Ever since James Tyson's death his at
torneys of Melbourne have been search
ing for those lawfully entitled to share
in his estate. The search has reached
over two continents.
On 3. farm in Humboldt, Cal, Mr.. Will
SON. one of the attorneys, finally found
Elsie Tyson, a daughter of John Tyson.
She was working as a servant. Through
her was learned the existence of George
Tyson, a blacksmith, in Morristown, N.
J. Family records were searched and the
lawyers finally reached the conclusion
that John Tyson, who died thirty years
ago, was the older brother of the man
whose millions were seeking lawful
resting place.
In England the Tyson family tree will
be searched from its root to it's utter
most branches. Both the Tyson brothers
originally came from England, one set
Ting in this country, the other making
his way to Australia
Most of the descendants of John Tyson
are residents of New Jersey, though one
branch of the family resides in California,
where a daughter of the shoe manufac-
turer moved years ago.
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specifically or with other power COM
pahles 1t IS claimed that power can be
furnished in this way at about one-fifth
the COST OF steam power in Pittsburg.
A Dill has received its second reading
in the Nova Scotia legislative council, the
OBJECT of which is to amend the act in
cooperating the Nova Scotia Iron and
steel company, one of the amendments
being to increase the capital stock from
the present limit of 100000 to $40, 900 900.
MI Armstrong who introduced the meas
ure, said that the works at Trenton and
Ferrona would be continued and that
large coal and iron developments would
Pc Pc carried out in Cape Breton. He added
that the company has purchased the
works Of the old Sydney mines belonging
TO the General Mining association and
that when this bill went thorugh the
legislature and when the Nova Scotia
Iron and Steel company was ready for
operation, the old mining association,
which has done business in the province
for over 70 years, would go out of ex-
istence. Its old Sydney eolliery and the
large important submarine coal areas
con tiguous will be worked by the Nova
Scotia Iron and Steel company. The
areas at Point Aconi and the island of
Boularderie are also to be opened. These
mines belong to the northern limit of the
greatest coal fields in the province