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The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
WHY NOT?
"a la HiaWatha. J

"a la I1iawathal
In the land of noble pine-tree,
Land of sea-men and of wood-men,
Land where once dWelt the PenObscotS,
Happy hunting grounds for red-men,
Land whose coast so bold and rugged
Seemed to send back to old Ocean
Many rOarS of loud defiance.
Here was founded fair city,
Fair in its imposing grandeur,
Fair as Italy's Ravenna,
High upon hill commanding,
Isles and sea lay all before her,
Noble port for ships great commerce.
Every morn the sun did shine on
Waves that danced in this fair harbOr,
And at setting seemed to linger,
Linger for one long, last look at
Natures ever mindful favor.
Brtons named the village Belfast,
Named it after their own city,
SO great then was the resemblance.
Doubt they did not noble Britons,
That in the far distant future,
This town growing faster, faster,
NOulu DcCOilC q loOlC Slpys
Leading all the others ever,
Leading in its population,
Leading in its vast Improvements.
But when Heavens power was harnessed
Harnessed by our own inventor,
All the other cities flourished,
Flourished by this growing wonder
Till the streets were all gridironed.
BY the many electric car-trackS
Which all smacked of the great city.
Belfast though was not thus favored
Iron-handed fate seemed gainst her
When the smile OF nature faded;
So of course there'll be standStill
In this would-b mart of trading,
Ever clogging wheels of business
Ever rusting thrift's ambition,
Till there comes the towns salvation.
Till there steps forth some good hero,
Who will solve the present problem,
And will place in street and by-way
Rails so strung for this contrivance,
Der which huns the swift electric
Carrying loads of happy people.
Then perchance the fates queer faces
Changed from frowning ever harsh,
Then will smile accord to nature
Bid the town arise and flourish.
Fen fulfilling BritOn'S wishes;
That in the far distant future
This town growing faster, faster,
Would become noble city,
Leading all the others ever.
Harvard, '03.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
Derelicts Destroyed.

The Navy Yard tug Nina H. returned
to New York, Dec. 4, from a trip to
Block Island, where she destroyed two
derelicts, the coal barges Hudson and
Robert Ingle Carter. They broke adrift
from the tug Teaser off Moptauk Point
on the night of November 8, and foun-
dered on the shoals of Nantucket. The
Nina found the wrecks in 10 fathoms of
water on the southwest lodge, two and
half miles from the whistling buoy
southwest of Block Island. Both wrecks
were destroyed by the use of service
gun cotton mines,
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
Worlds Champion.

81 tried many remedies to cure piles"
writes w. R. Smith of Latham, ILL.,, "but
found no relief till / used Bucklen's Arnica
Salve. have not been troubled with piles
since" It's the only champion pile cure on
earth and the best salve in the world. 25c
per box, guaranteed by R. II. Moody, drug
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
A Woman's Awful Peril.

life and that is through an operation were
the startling words heard by Mrs. l. B. Hunt
of Lime Ridge, Wis, from her doctor after
he had vainly tried to cure her of a fright
full case of stomach trouble and yellow jaun-
dice. Gall stones had formed and she con-
stantly grew worse. Then she began to use
Electric Bitters which wholly cured her.
It's a wonderful Stomach, Liver and Kidney
remedy. Cures Dyspepsia, Loss of Appe-
tite. Try it. Only 80 cts Guaranteed.
For sale by r. II. Moody, druggist.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
Tortured a Witness.

Intense suffering was endured by witness
7. L. Martin of Dixie, KY, before he gave
this evidence: IS coughed every night until
my throat was nearly raw; then tried Dr..
Kings New Discovery which gave instant
relief. l have used it in my family for four
edy for Coughs, Colds and all Throat, Chest
and Lung troubles. It will stop the worst
cough, and not only prevents but absolutely
cures Consumption. Price SOC and $lW.
Every bottle guaranteed. Trial bottles free
at r. Fl. MOOdy's Drug Store.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
A Keen Clear Brain.

Your best feelings, your social position or
business success depend largely on the per
feet action of your Stomach and Liver. DR.;
strength, a keen, clear brain, high ambition.
A Is cent box will make you feel like new
being. Sold by R. H. Moody, Druggist.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
What Shall We Have for Dessert?

This question arises in the family every
day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O
a delicious and healthful dessert Prepared
in two minutes. No boiling no baking
Lemon, Orange, Raspberry and Straw
berry. AT your grocers, 10 cts 1y10
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

Another visitor in Seattle recently
was Miss Dolly Columbia, the travelling
doll, sent out by Mrs. Elizabeth r. Hor-
ton OF Boston, on tour Of the world
She is enclosed in telescope grip with
books and papers concerning her trip.
At Los Angeles she was joined in her
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

Not Effusive He-sDid you have it cool
this summer?" She'll ought to. | stop
ped in hotel where there only ultra-fash-
ionable people, Detroit Free Press.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

VIZ AANAO WV
escort. From here they go to Junau,
and on their return will proceed to Ha-
wall, Japan the Philippines and posi-
bly, return via the Suez Canal. Like
the genius tramp they are cheating"
their way, or rather the various express
companies are "dead- heading" them
wherever they desire to go. A story of
their visit is added at each stopping
place. Dolly had great time in Seat
tie, and with Uncle Sam visited his
branch assay office, where Uncle Samuel
took account of stock He found S40,-
100000 added to his gold stores of
bright new gold from Alaska, and at
the banks s17,o00oOo on deposit by
thrifty Seattleites.
Recent government reports show en-
couraging and enormous figures con-
corning the shipment Of oats. Few
sections raise more oats to the acre
than the reclaimed tidemarsh lands
along thc east shores of Puget Sound,
yielding more than 100 bushels per acre.
During October 32o,17S bushels of oats
were exported from Puget Sound ports,
against 1,699 bushels for the same
of oats was valued at S145, ST. The
total exports of all breadstuffs from
Sound ports for October, 1900, were val
ued at 81, 03o, 44o as against S404 600 for
Oct, 1899 For ten months this year
Sound ports exported $1,000, 227 worth
of breadstu1fs as against S3,S15.575 for
the same months last year: and ,07S, O59
bushels of oats for just ten months as
against 1870. 3Sd bushels the same months
last year. No other coast ports show
such enormous gains.
Statistics from the gold commission
er's office at Dawson City estimate the
past seasons output for the klondike
district at a round $50, 100000 as against
81 900, 600 for 1899.
The L. :. Government is still shipping
horses and mules to the Philippines,
via. Seattle. Several hundred are now
awaiting shipment.
The Great Northern tunnel through
the Cascade mountains, three miles in
length, is now nearly ready for travel
and the last of the famous "switch-
backs" across the mountains will soon
be of record
Rear Admirals Endicott, Hichborn
and Bradford have each now expressed
approval OF Puget Sound as a naval
stragetic point, and all join in recon-
mending adequate and vast improve
ments at the government dry dock on
the Sound. O. NJ. MOORE.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13
Ia,,.o. The New Dessert

pleases all the family. Four fiavors Lem
i1 os ry d
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

Among the recent distinguished visj-
ltors on Puget Sound was Rear Admi-
raj Bradford sent out to investigate the
needs of the Government dry dock at
Bromerton, near Seattle. Like all gov
eminent officials who have visited Pu-
get Sound, Admiral Bradford becomes
its warm friend and advocate While
here he had no hesitancy in saying that
There is but one good harbor on the
Pacific coast in American Territory.
and that is Puget Sound. You will
have to go clear to Mexico to find har
Dor which, like Puget Sound, is safe and
reliable at all seasons of the year, at all
stages of the tide, and during all kinds
of weather. The dangers to navigation
at the entrance to the bay of San Fran
sisco are well known to nautical men,
so also are the dangers at the mouth of
the Columbia river
It is an undisputable fact that Puget
Sound is the only American port on the
Pacific coast where the largest possible
craft may safely enter at any and all
times, and local enthusiast has said
''The tallest tree 900 feet Of the Sound
country might float in and out of the
Sound and Straits of Fuca, roots up,
and the topmost branches of the tree
would not brush the bottom.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

Statistics from the gold commission
er's office at Dawson City estimate the
past seasons output for the klondike
district at a round 2o,00o,O00, as against
81, 00o 600 for 1899
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

The L. :. Government is still shipping
horses and mules to the Philippines,
via. Seattle. Several hundred are now
awaiting shipment.
The Republican journal., 1900-12-13

The Great Northern tunnel through
the Cascade mountains, three miles in
length, is now nearly ready for travel
and the last of the famous "switch-
be of record.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
Feed for Young Bulls.

at reasonable prices barley is an eco
nomical concentrate and should be
used as freely as possible, writes W.
A. Henry of the Wisconsin Expert
ment Station. Barley, however, is not
particularly rich in protein, ranking
lower than bran. AS the young bulls
are growing bone and muscle they
should therefore not receive too
much of the barley, but instead rea-
sonable allowance of both oats and
bran. At the prices named there is
not much choice in these two latter
feeds excepting that being richer in
protein than the oats the bran will
supplement the barley very nicely.
After giving all the bronze and oat hay
the bulls will eat allow them for con-
centrates a mixture as follows; Barley,
200 pounds; bran, 100 pounds; oats, so
pounds. Or this mixture allow not
less than one pound per hundred
weight OF animals fed. Some will eat q
little more, and some will possibly get
on with somewhat less. AS the ami
mails grow older the proportion of bar
ley to other concentrates can be in
creased. The barley should be reduc-
ed to meal either by rolling or grind
ing, preferably the former, and it
would be we'll as rule to grind the
oats, though if the person is some dis
lance from the mill or has not the ma
chinery available he can try feeding
whole oats, giving them separately if
the animals do not take to them kindly
when mixed with the other mill feeds.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
A Cows Food and Her Milk.

have known wild onions to spoil
completely the milk of COWS which had
eaten of them; that turnips fed to cows
have similar effect; that even when
stored on the feeding floor in the stable
they have had bad effect on the milk
and butter, and even cheese. Every
dairy man or woman knows the white
clover improves the character of the
milk in quality and flavor, while cot
tonseed meal does the same, but not
favorably for all tastes. The same
applies to the gluten meals, which af-
feet both flavor and color of the butter,
while pumpkins do the same. Indeed,
the whole cloud of witnesses to these
facts might completely demolish the
suggestion that dairy experts assure us,
that "odors or flavors do not come
through the cow" If they do not,
what then causes the great variation in
flavor of milk, cheese and butterP
But there is sure proof that the food
not only affects the quality and flavor
of milk products but distinctly affects
the chemical reactions of the fats of
the milk of cows. have tested cot
ton-seed oil and the butter made from
it and the butter adulterated with it..
The Washington Department of Agri-
culture did the same, and DIR. Taylor,
then the chemist of the department,
showed by colored illustrations that
the reactions of butter 80 adulterated,
either by actual addition of the oil to
the cream in the churning or by feed
ing the cottonseed meal, were precisely
the same.-H. Stewart, in Rural New
Yorker.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
Baby Beef:

If the feeding of any class of beef
will pay, it will pay to feed baby beef,
writes Joseph e. Wing in the Breeders
Gazette. There is no doubt that gain
is produced at much less cost on the
calf than on the older animal AS his
age progresses each succeeding day
sees the cost of gain increase. Com
pared with weight the ability to eat, to
digest and assimilate is immensely
greater in the young animal, and the
stood of support" is in comparison
much less in amount. Provide besides
your corn and barley plenty of good al
falfa hay. There is need Of plenty of
protein in the ration that is to be fed to
the baby steer, baby lamb or baby
boy or girl. Protein, which abounds in
all clovers (alfalfa is a clover), goes to
make lean flesh and blood and bone, to
build the frame, without which you
would not have room to hang your fat.
1t keeps the animal in health and vigor.
The mature animal will endure a ration
of corn alone; not 80 with the baby.
AS to the questions of market, they
are we'll answered in the following
from leading Chicago commission
house:
"We thing it pays to feed baby beef.
In the first place, this class of cattle is
gaining favor every day, and it makes
no difference how many cattle are on
sale there is always an excellent de-
mand for baby beef-in fact, the de-
mands exceeds the supply, and they
are about the first cattle that sell in the
morning. Baby beef will weigh from
1,150 to 1900 pounds at the time Of
market. The heavier they are the bet
ter they sell, as the eastern shippers
are strong competitors for heavy
weights. Barring Christmas time, the
months of June and July are the best
market months for baby weight beeves.
This is occount Of their suiting the
warm weather trade much better than
the heavy weight beeves. We strong
ly advise feeding nothing but top
calves. Heifer calves will sell about
the same as steer calves"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
The Hay Pasture.

Every swine grower knows that sue
cess in pork production is best promo
ted by having an abundance of good
pasture. The hogs thrive best and
make pork cheapest on grass and
clover, for, by nature, the pig feeds on
grass as well as grains, notwithstand-
ing the small size of its stomach. Pigs
like blue grass pasture we'll, says West
ern swineherd, and it comes early, but
brood sows that are nursing should be
turned on it with caution and gradually
get accustomed to it, otherwise it will
effect the milk and the swine grower
will be wondering what is the matter
with young pigs. Blue grass is also
fine fall pasture for brood sows, after
the clover has been nipped by the frost.
Glover is fine su MINER pasture, hard
to improve upon, and coming in when
blue grass has become little dry and
unpalatable, and both the sows and
pigs can almost live upon it until fall.
We say almost, advisedly, for pigs feed
naturally on grass as we'll as grain, and
not on grass exclusively at any season.
Clover should be managed so that pigs
will always have it young and tender.
When it becomes woody larger stock
should eat it down or it should be now
ed, 80 as to allow the new growth to
come on. Rape is also being more
largely grown for hog pasture and it
makes very good one, especially in
the fall, and early fall sown rye serves
an excellent purpose after it has made q
good growth. With reasonable fore
thought it is no very difficult matter to
provide good pasture for the hogs the
whole season through, and they will be
all the better for it as we'll as more
cheaply grown. No one should try to
raise hogs without plenty of pasture
throughout the season but remember
also that it takes grain to make mar
ketable hog and to keep brood sows up
to their work.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
Intensive VS.. Extensive Farming.

The successful farmer of the future
must farm fewer acres and grow more
per acre. Rotation of crops and diver
sifled farming and stock raising are the
plans to be adopted for laying the best
foundation for the success of the fu-
ture farmer, and, as it costs no more to
raise well bred animal than 1t does to
raise a scrub, better sell off the inferior
stock and in the future raise none but
the very best to consume the crops
raised. Fewer animals in number and
better ones to consume the grain and
grass raised on fewer acres is the road
to success in these days of small mar
gins and sharp competition. The
writer has observed one great mistake
made by many farmers: They under
take to do too much, so that they have
not time to give growing crops proper
attention at the right time.
Better drop off one or two things in
which there is the least profit and put
more time on other crops that pay bet
ter. The successful farmer of the fu-
ture will find that he cannot afford to
undertake more than he can do well.
have had experience enough to know
that in farming many things must be
done at the right time to secure good
and profitable crop. If we would have
our potato patch and growing corn do
their best, the ground should be stirred
as soon as dry enough after every rain
that falls, forming crust on the sur
face. Every ton of clover hay that
man sells off his farm robs it of about
$500 worth of fertility; every ton Of
timothy hay that he hauls away robs it
of $5.48, and every ton of wheat, S7.75.
Hence it is evident to every man that
if we grow clover and timothy for the
market it is only a question of time
when the best of farms will become
unproductive. We must practice more
intense farming and less extensive if
we make farming pay in the future.
We must plant fewer acres and raise
more to the acre. Wheat at fifty cents
per bushel, and twelve to fifteen BUSH
els per acre, does not pay expenses.
But if we can so farm as to raise thirty
or thirty-fve bushels per acre, then
there would be some profit in raising
fifty cent wheat. But the American
farmer cannot sfford to quit growing
wheat if there be little or no profit in
it, from the fact that we must rotate
our crops in order to keep up the fer
tility of the soil.-M. Trussler, in
Farmers Guide.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
Live Stock Market.

There were offered at Brighton last Tues
day 1889 cattle, % sheep and lambs. 376
swine, 712 veal calves, $40 horses and 80
lbs of poultry.
The supply OF northern and eastern beef
cattle was lighter than usual, the low price
last week having evidently frightened dro-
vers. The demand, however, was fec BILE
and no inconvenience was suffered by pur-
chasrrs from the paucity Of the offerin g.
Both domestic purchasers and shinp ars
seemed in fact to be wei! stocked. Sales: 2
cattle, average 1915 lbs, SIC; cattle, aver
age 1889 lbs, 44c; cattle, average 1915 lbs,
54c; cattle, average 1926 lbs, 5Ic; 10 beef
cows, average 939 lbs, Sfc beef COW,
weighing $50 lbs, pc.
There were large number of excellent
mich cows for sale, and moderate BUSH
ness was put through at fairly satisfactory
prices.
Veal calves were steady at last weeks
prices. Sales: % calves, average 1873 lbs,
5fo; 10 calves, average 10S lbs, 5fc 20 calves
average 1874 lbs, 54c; 20 calves, average 100
lbs SIC; 10 calves, average 1874 lbs, 55c.
There were two few sheep and lambs on
Offering to make a market,
Swine sold readily at 81 to 5Ac per Id.
The cattle arriving from the west were
OF first class quality.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
AGRICULTURAL.
Utilizing q Muck Swamp.

My advice to one owning a muck
swamp which he wishes to use for fer
tilizing purposes would be first to send
a fair average sample to his expert
ment station for analysis and advice.
If the report is encouraging the next
step would be to drain off as much
water as possible. Muck swamps are
generally drowned in water.
1t is not advisable to cart green muck
very far. If instead of carting from
our five acre muck swamp 80 many
green loads down to the barn to COM
post with manure we had spread it on
the field where the compost was sub.
sequently applied, and had carted up
the manure and sprinkled it on top of
the muck, much labor would have been
saved and just as much ripening would
have been given to all the material, by
its exposure lying upon the field, as it
could get in the compost. In another
case where we composted green muck
drawn from the stable and manure
drawn from the stable on the field mid
way between the two points and near
where it was to be applied later, it is
doubtful if the trouble of piling and
turning paid, 1t were better, as in the
previous case, to have spread both to-
gether on the land as carted, and to
have left the decomposition to be car
ried on by the weather.
1t is doubtful if it will pay the dairy
farmer to dump muck upon the upland
to be partially dried and pulverized,
that he may afterward cart it half a
mile to compost with manure. 1t m ay
be profitable practice for greenhouse
work, and perhaps for the truck grow
err, but other methods are better for
the dairyman. But when good swamp
muck can be 30 dried on the upland
that 40 or 30 bushel load is not too
heavy for the team, any farmer can
well afford to haul it two or three miles
and perhaps further, to be used, when
further dried, as an absorbent in the
stable to take up liquid manure.
If the farmer wishes to increase the
bulk of his manure pile, as he certainly
should, let him use plenty of absor-
bents and keep the manure away from
the detrimental action of the weather.
Add light composing materials that
will rot as much as he wishes, but do
not let him cart very much dirt into
the barnyard.-E. G. Birge, in Ameri-
can Agriculturist.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
HOw's This 7

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that can not be
cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY 81 CO.,
Proprietors, Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned, have known F.
j. Cheney for the last fifteen years,
and believe him perfectly honorable in
all business transactions and fnan-
cially able to carry out any obligations
made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAx, Wholesale Drug
gists. Toledo, Ohio.
WALDINe, KINNAN q MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio.
HALLS Catarrh Cure ID taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Price, seventy-five cents per bottle
Sold by all druggists. Testimonials
free.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
Glorious News

Comes from DIR. ID. b. Cargile, OF Washita,
L. T. He writes Electric Bitters has
cured Mrs. Brewer OF scrofula which has
caused her great suffering for years Terri
BILE sores would break out on her head and
face, and the best doctors could give no
help; but now her health is excellent"
Electric Bitters IL the best blood purifier
known. It's the supreme remedy for ecze-
ma, letter, salt rheum, ulcers, boils and
running sores. 1t stimulates the liver, kid.
neys and bowels, expels poisons, helps di.
gestion, builds up the strength. Only 30
cts. Sold by O. Blakely, Druggist Guar
anteed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
A Life and Death Fight.

Mr.. W. A. Hines Of Manchester, Ia,
writing OF his almost miraculous escape
from death, says Exposure after measles
induced serious lung trouble, which ended
in Consumption. I had frequent hemor-
rhages and coughed night and day. All my
gan to use DR.. Kings New Discovery
which wholly cured me. Hundreds have
used it on my advice and all say it never
fails to cure Throat, Chest and Lung
troubles" Regular size 50c and S1,00
Trial bottles free at G. Blakely's Drug Store.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-06-27
A Monster Devil Fish

Destroying its victim, is type Of Consti.
patton. The power Of this malsdy is felt on
organs, nerves, muscles and brain. But
DR.. Kings New Life Pills are safe and
certain cure. Best in the world for Stom-
ach, Liver, Kidneys and Bowels. Only %
cents, at G. Blakely's Drug Store.