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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-10-04

WEDNESDAYS SUMMARY.
25o Glass, $50.
Glen Eyre, br. M, G. P, Tarbell,
Bumbebee, b. m, W. G. Danforth, !
Arelay, b. M, n. L. Adams. "a
Rebia, blk. m, n. 5. Hudson, 4 DR.
Timei ass 81, asa Is 2.S7, 2s3 i-2.
AS Glass, SIS.
Fire King, br. e., ". ?, CLARK, ] J
Chasseur, T. m, r. 4: bennett,
Daisy E., b. m, L. H. Pratt,
Time. 2s9 Ia, 2s4 ia, asa IA.
as Class. $3.50.
Rejected sid, b. g.. P. 7. Mecabe, !
John N. wilkes, 3. ., W. G. Dsnforth, 2 2
Beulah, e. p. Tarbel,
Time; 226, 22s. AS
THURSDAYS SUMMARY.
500 Glass, $50.
Rainbow, br' 8, W. c. Danforth, 2
Mollie A., Allie Page,
Times az, 247, 2.s4 Ia 2.54 IL, 2f2 81
Rejected sid, p. ], McCabe,
Brown Bird, br. =, 4. ;, Hudson, Z
Beuiah, g. =. Tarbei
Time: 22s Ia asa Ia, ASH
Running Race, hali-mile, s2'.
Roxie, f. W. Ashie, Taft.Eilis,
Silver King, VI. T. Dana, WOODSTOCK,
Pickles, G. j. Dyer, Woodstock
Time; 25s Ia 25e Ia
THE WINNERS.
PIT. McCabe has a grand horse in
Rejected sid. He won two races with
ease. the 2.25 and ? 80. He is a PAGER
and can pace every day in the week al
the same rate. sid was sired by Grey
Darrell, a son Of Onward.
C. p. Tarbell showed a good mare
i'm Glen Eyre, the winner OF the 2.5O
class. She was sired by Parmly, a
son Of Banker.
The 3-year-old Rainbow, winner OF
the LOO class, was sired by Bradlaugh,
son Of Egbert; dam, the well-remem-
bered black mare, Tinnie C., which
took a record Of 2.2G at years.
Fire King, owned by ii. L. Clark,
Woodstock, winner of the 2.45 class,
was sired by Mack, 2.l6 IL, son oil
Thought.
Sailor Boy, owned by p. T.McCabei
the winner Of the 2.17, was sired by
Neglo. He is a hoppled PAGER, but
with his legs tied could easily beat any
horse shown.
PREMIUM LIST.
Horses:-F. L. ellison, mare and
colt. LIST. f. ;. Putnam ID, Fred X.
Billings Sd.
stallion and get-W. f. Davis lsti
W. c. Danforth ID.
stations, 4 years old-E. ;. Put
namlst, F. Billings I'd.
Stations, 3 years dbl. Totman
Ist. w. G. DanfOrth ID.
stations, years old-P. A.Holme'
lst.
Geldings or mares-Four-year-olds
If. f. Gibson lst, L. D. spaulding I'd
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-10-04

For sprains. swellings and lsmeness
there Is nothing so good a. Chsmberiain's
Pain Balm. Try Il. For sale by Bailey a
Allen, druggists, Randolph, and A. x.
Hood 4 Son, druggists, Cheises.
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w II N r 4 s. -
TANGIN Z

" " " ~ "
1t is woman's medicine, possessing the
precise ingredients needed by the delicate
organs Of her sex. Her dull, dragging
pains and exhausted feelings simply can
not remain after taking TANCIN for a
short time.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-10-04

No woman need suffer
after knowing about
TANGIN ~ no woman
will suffer otter she
has taken it x " "
TANGIN works hand in hand with nature and
revves the enfeebed organs to full vital force II IS
just the medicine natureintended womantotakew
nervous, down, weak and generally debilitated.
The free press., 1900-06-28
Homemade Potato Planter.

Potatoes were planted with home
made planter consisting of a shoe
from press drill so placed in frame
on four wheels that it runs at depth
of four inches. Immediately behind
and fastened to the shoe is a tin fun
mel through which the cuttings may
be dropped behind the shoe, and in
the slit thus made. The dirt falls
back alone as soon as the shoe and
funnel have passed, thus planting
and covering at one operation and all
cuttings at a uniform depth. This
takes team and driver and one to
drop from the basket of cuttings
placed in front of the dropper, who
sits behind the funnel and lets a
steady stream of cuttings fall from the
hand If the team is held at slow
walk, this distributes the eyes at from
six to ten inches apart. S.
Pease, in Orange Judd Farmer.
The free press., 1900-06-28
Selecting Grain For Seed.

If farmers would select their largest
and plumpest grain for seed they could
seed much less heavily than they do
and grow larger crops as well. This
has been many times proven by care
full experiment. There was a saving
in the amount of seed used and a gain
in the amount Of crop grown that made
great difference in the cost of grow
ing the crop, in some cases all the diff
ference between a profit and loss. The
same thing is true Of garden seeds.
One had better pay dollar a pound
for plump, well-developed and we'll
ripened seeds than to have inferior
seed given to them. Probably seed
will average better this year than it
has some years, because of the favor
able weather for ripening and curing
it, but we repeat our advice to the
gardener to test his seed by putting
some Of it between damp cloths to see
how much will germinate before SOW
ing. 1t is provoking to SOW a lot of
seed with great care and find that but
a small part comes up, perhaps just
enough to encourage one to care for
the crops, instead of digging it up and
putting in some other, and not enough
to warrant the expectation of more
than half a fair crop. Yet almost every
gardener has had such an experience.
The free press., 1900-06-28
1THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

Suddenly Dorothy was astonished to
see a broken line of men come down
the road toward the house on a dead
run, and her own father brought up
the rear.
She hardly knew him at first. His
coat was gone and his left arm was
in sling. His men were in an equal
ly damaged condition. "Make for the
marsh back of the house, boys" he
shouted, 'and wade through to the
other side. L will join you in a few
minutes at the top of Pine Knoll"
Then he caught Dorothy up in his
The free press., 1900-06-28

arms and kissed her. "Where's man.
MAJ" he asked.
Mamma is over at jamaica" she
told him.
"Oh, the evil luckr' he groaned. 81
must see her,
Look here, child" he went on, "the
Hessians are after us. There are too
many for "a to stand battle with them
If they hunt me down 1 shall have to
make across the marsh. and when
have Joined my men and we are safe
ly hid from pursuit 1 will fire a sig
nal. That will let you know 1 am all
right. Now run into the house. dear,
and tell no one but mamma that you
have seen me. Goodby." And he was
gone.
Three minutes later long, glittering
column of soldiers In bright red coats,
with a drum corps at their head,
marched up the road whence her faith
er had come and halted before the
house. The commanding officer, a fat
little German, with a great big nose
and tiny restless eyes, came up to
the door.
"Whose house is disY he asked of
Dorothy.
"If it please you, sir" replied she,
making a deep courtesy, this is the
home of Mr.. Richard Stirling"
"Ach" said the Dutchman. $50,
Veil. who are your
Il am his daughter, Dorothy, sir
The officer suddenly stopped down
till his face was on a level with hers
and fixed his little eyes on her face.
"Vere is your fadder und his men!
Tell me dat, child" he commanded
pinching her cheek with his gloved
hand.
Then this little ten-year-old girl
spurred on by her love and loyalty
set about to fool this fat old German
in way that would have done credit
to an old gray-head.
II can take you to my father, but
it is long, long way" she said, look
ing up at the officer with her big, in
nocent eyes. "And I'll lead you tC
him if you will play the drums fol
me. / love to march to 'lrumsp'
! The officer laughed AMI gave an or
The free press., 1900-06-28
Where the Weed Seed Lay.

He had always had love for out
door life, but came to outdoor work
past middle life.
He was an inland, surrounded by a
gulf OF neighbcrly advice, into which
ran silently a stream of the elder ex-
periences of his fathers across the
water.
He himself experimental with a
mixture of both.
The neighbors carted off all the barn
and stable manure and let it rot out
of sight and smell, except the little
dug into the garden patch.
lawfully wastefulF" he said, and
gathered it up and spread it on a field
destined for winter wheat.
"Sie'll be sorrowful ober dat" said
an old Dutch neighbor. "De manure
is foil weed seedr
And sorrowful he was, for sorrel
came up first before the wheat, and
dog fennel succeeded in out-topping
both!
"Worth nothing for hay, even" he
said. So he had to NOW it and dry it
and feed it to the flames.
He swears he will keep a good,
honest manure pile in the future, as
his fathers did, and let it rot well,
year in and year out, before applying
it to the wheat land.-L. A. N, in
National Rural.
The free press., 1900-06-28
Selling Young Pigs.

Young pigs always bring price
that is considerably above their pres
ent value if killed to furnish meat.
The young pig will increase in weight
very rapidly in proportion to the food
it consumes, and this fact is sure to
be discounted by the seller when he
fixes the price. The young pigs also
keeps the tenoerness of flesh and fine
favor OF the roasting pig stage until
it is several months old, and a roast
pig weighing eighty to ninety pounds
is as good eating as one killed when
it is not more than eight weeks old.
This, however, depends on how the
pig has been kept. If allowed to sur
felt itself and become dyspeptic, the
meat will show that the animal has
had fever and will be neither tender
nor healthful as food.
The free press., 1900-06-28

The most troublesome lettuce dis
ease is what is known as the drop.
This is caused by q fungus which
ramifes through the soil but does not
propagate by spores. This disease
causes enormous losses. Some houses
almost entirely succumb to it, whereas
many other growers have from twen-
tyfve to fifty per cent. Of the disease
in their houses. 1t has been found
that the best method of treating this
disease is by the use of heat or steril-
ization of the soil. Numerous ex-
periments with gas and chemicals
have shown but the slightest efficiency
in controlling this.
Various methods are being tried to
control this disease, one of which con-
sists in covering the soil with layer
of about one inch Of sterilized soil.
This succeeds in greatly reducing the
loss. Two inches of sterilized soil is
far superior to one, but the only alb
solute method known yet is to COM
pletely sterilize the soil in the house,
or at least heat it up to about 800 de-
grees. This is done by placing two
inch tile in the soil about one foot
deep and passing steam through them.
With a large high-pressure boiler
enormous quantities of soil can be
heated up in a very short time to the
requisite temperature. Plants grown
in such soil grow faster. When this
disease, moreover is once eradicated,
care being taken to prevent inocula-
tion from refuse heaps, there appears
to be no reason why the disease can
not be kept out of the house indefi-
nitely. The same method of treat
ment would appear to apply to some
of the other fungous diseases which
do not propagate by spores.-Profes-
sor G. E. Stone, in American Agri-
culturist
The free press., 1900-06-28

Then what do you suppose he did?
He went over to poor Dorothy. who
was weeping her heart out on the
damp ground. and picked her up in his
arms.
Poor Mrs Sterling, wild with grief
and alarm at the absence of her
daughter went to the front door for
the fiftieth time that evening and saw
a strange sight. Up the dusty road
came the Hessian officer and in his
arms was little Dorothy, fast asleep.
"Madam!" said the. gentleman as he
deposited his burden in the arms of
the thankful mother. Madam, bring
back your daughter. She led me a
FOOLS errand to save her fadder. Und
vat do say? 1 say 1 wish l had such
a daughter und should be so broud"
And then the funny little fat officer
made stately bow and went away to
join his comrades.
Captain Stirling live d to be a great
and honored man, and as for little
Dorothy she lived to have grandchil-
dren of her own, and none was more
eager to celebrate the Fourth of July
| than she.-New York Herald.
The free press., 1900-06-28
An old-rime Celebration.

An interesting account of the Fourth
of July in Newark is published in the
Centinel of Freedom for July 8. 1893:
Last Thursday being the twenty
third anniversary Of American inde-
pendence, the same was celebrated in
this town with the usual 'eclot. The
day was announced by the ringing of
bells and firing of cannon. About ten
o'clock the citizens assembled on the
green and marched from there to the
Presbyterian Church. The ceremonies
of the day We're opened by the Rev.
Bishop Ogden in a suitable prayer to
the Throne of Grace. after which the
Declaration of Independence was read
by Jabez Parkhurst, Esq, and an ora
ton delivered by Mr.. Elias Van Ars-
dale. The ceremonies were inter-
spersed with several hymns and odes,
which concluded the business of the
day, and the citizens retired to their
respective places of entertainment,
seemingly exultant with JOY at the
return of this auspicious day."
The free press., 1900-06-28

with a"lot of rough, strange men, who
would do harm to her dear father if
they could catch him. Still she kept
bravely on. mile after mile. All the
time she strained her ears for the
sound of the three musket shots that
would tell of her fathers escape.
Crack. Crack! Crack! Three mus
ket shots in slow succession rang out
family on the still night air.
"Achr muttered the German com
mander, cooking his head like fright
ened sparrow, 4 Wonder vat dat iss.
1t sounds a gut way off,
''Th-that's papa" whimpered the
little maid. "And he's safe now and
you can't catch him. And with that
Dorothy flung herself upon the ground
and burst into hysterical sobs. "You
can kill me.' she cried, but he's safe,
and you can't touch him"
The German grew purple in the face
when it dawned upon him what fool
this mite of a girl hade made of him.
The free press., 1900-06-28

where where they might be out of
hhnger. but his loyal wife would not
hear of going away.
tSThen came days of anxious waiting
for Mrs. Stirling. Dorothy, while the
Captain was away with his regiment,
learned to be brave little girl, who
Mas not TO cry at strange sounds and
Tough voices, but who must be quiet
hhd gentle and a comfort to her
mother. So her father had told her
when he kissed her and went away
dressed in his beautiful uniform, and
With his shining sword dangling
at his side.
n One frightfully hot afternoon toward
the end of August there came the
sounds of heavy shooting Volley af-
ter yolley ratified out and echoed
Through the woods. Mrs. Stirling was
away spending a few hours with a
friend in Jamaica. and the two col
'ored servants had gone to the pasture
land to drive home the unruly cows.
The free press., 1900-06-28
Flowing For Corn.

Both deep and shallow plowing for
corn have their ardent advocates.
Where the land is covered with barn
yard manure the plowing should be at
least an inch shallower than the last
plowing. The constant rains carry
the soluble particles of fertility down
deeper in the soil after each soaking
rain. If plowed shallow the strata of
formerly plowed land lying immedi-
ately underneath will take up and
hold most OF the soluble plant food,
whereas if turned under to the usual
depth it will soak into the subsoil,
and being deeper than most plants
seek their food, is almost lost as far
as immediate returns are concerned
Only deeper plowing will make this
The free press., 1900-06-28
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Recipe For Gophers and Squirrels.
The following recipe for the de-
struction OF gophers and squirrels has
been highly recommended; ''Take a
fve-gallon can, put a stick of phos-
phorus with little cold water in the
bottom of it. Pour in hot--not boil
ing-water, just hot enough to melt
the PHOSPHORUS gradually. Add two
pounds of sugar and stir. Then add
corn meal and -four equal in quanti-
ties to make thick batter. Then stir
in whole wheat until the batter is
quite stiff. Pour in at the same time
fifteen or twenty drops of rhodium.
The wheat will absorb all the water
and the mass will become hard. For
use, chip off small pieces to the size
of hickory nut and place it in the
runs
The free press., 1900-06-28

What the farmer wants is to have
nature furnish his fertilizers. Com
mercial fertilizers are no doubt all
right and some of them are excellent
as we'll as being all their manufactur-
ers claim for them, but the slice
which they cut off the profits of the
farm is the thing that hurts the
farmer.
When farmers are practicing close
arming-raising market stuff on from
two to five acres and make a good
living off it-why then it is case OF
compulsion, but when the available
land is in such quantities that strips
or plots, and in some cases, fields can
be allowed to rest why then there IS
hardly any reason at all why man
should part with his hard earned
money by paying big fertilizer bills.
Of course a growing crop is bound
to take something, and in fact great
deal, from the soil which has got to
be put back if any kind of decent
crop is expected in the future and ma
ture comes to the farmers relief, for
it provides for him many different
plants that will not only grow and re-
store to the soil most of that which
has been taken from it by numerous
crops, but it will also furnish him
with an abundance of hay with which
to feed his stock. Farmers should
not fail to take advantage of this gen.
erous gift of nature and those who do
so will find both themselves and their
farms better off in the future. New
York Weekly Witness.
The free press., 1900-06-28

What speeches he made, though, and
how he'd portray
The patriots who sprang with their
guns TO the fray
When the signal for combat at Lex
inCton came
And they faced the swart red-coats
and met the death-fame
With that sh0t-and his nsts when he
told OF it swirled-
That is heard to this day ringing on
round the world.
And then Bunker Hill-it was good
for the blues
To hear him dilate on that G2and bat
tle-neWs.
If. ever the eagle had screamed, it
would scream
When he pictured the conflict at
quaint Concord stream;
And then Valley Forge-aId the end
at Yorktown.
While the sweat shone upon him from
chin unto crown
As the great peroration required all
his strength
To bring out the climax at just the
right length.
All, the old-fashioned Fourth, and
they want one again.
But l guess it's want they'll be
wanting in vain!
The free press., 1900-06-28

der, and Immediately the ''rat-a-tat-
tat! -tat-tat"' was echoing through
the woods.
"Dere, my leetle gurl; how you like
dat, eh?"
It's beautiful" said the little guide,
and all the time she was wondering
if her father had heard the warning
sound.
Poor Dorothy grew very tired. Her
little feet ached so she could hardly
walk, and she was far from home
The free press., 1900-06-28

You have known all your life prob
ably that the earth must be packed
close around the roots of trees or
plants when resetting them. A writer
in the Farmers Tribune tells of his
experience in procuring this end and
gives the reasons for its necessity:
zone of the most helpful things ever
learned in horticulture was about
pudding trees and all sorts of
plants before setting them. The first
thing every transplanted tree or plant
must do before it can grow in its new
location, is to heal the wounds made
upon its roots and start new rootlets
through which to absorb the moisture
and food from the soil. The closer
and more firmly the earth is pressed
to them the more readily they can do
this. 1t takes time for the particles
of the soil to get into contact with
the roots as it was before transplant
ing, no matter how well the work is
done. This is where pudding comes
in. The cost is nothing, except very
little work. 1t is done thus:
"Near where the trees or plants are
heeled in, or the place where they are
to be planted, dig a hole about two
feet in diameter and one foot deep.
Fill it nearly full of water. Into this
put mellow earth that is partly COM
posed of clay and stir it until it is
mass of thin, sticky mud. AS soon as
the roots are trimmed ready for plant
ing, dip them into it bodily. If there
is any delay about planting and the
mud dries so that it is not sticky pud-
die them again. When the mellow
soil comes in contact with these muddy
roots it will stick to them closely.
Those who have never tried this plan
can have no knowledge of the good
that follows. puddle almost every
plant that I set and find that it al
ways pays. Cabbage and sweet potato
plants will start into new growth al
most without whiting, no matter what
the weather may be at the time"
The free press., 1900-06-28
locked-up fertility available for plant

locked-up fertility available for plant
food.
With stiff sod the conditions are
almost the same as when manure IS
applied to the surface and plowed
under. Corn is not deep feeder
and few inches below the top you
will find a perfect network of tibrous
roots. In an extremely dry season
deep plowing for corn is of great ad-
vantage and extra large crops are
often grown from this practice. How
ever, in most sections the conditions
are not favorable more than one year
in four for deep plowing. Shallow
blowing will guard against the loss of
fertility, as the growing crop in no
season utilizes it ALL. d. Shook,
in American Agriculturist.
The free press., 1900-06-28

him. a11 they stayed at the house OF
frieai
One cay her father took her down
to Boring Green to see some soldiers
drill. Z hey were gay-looking fellows
in knickerbochers, with funny pow
dered wigs and long cues under their
hats. AS they We're starting on their
way home there was the sharp clatter
of hoofs and the mad hurTahing of
mighty crowd that surged about a
solitary horseman as he drew up ct
tavern in Bowling Green.
''Hark." cried Captain Sterling.
f'Hark to what the man is sayingw
4 Eve are declared free and independ-
snt States by the Continental Con-
gress at Philadelphia. It was ratified
on the Fourth of July. We are free"'
IfThese We're the words that rang in
the ears of Dorothy and her father
tsDown with King George! Down with
fhe tyrantw came the echoing cry
from the crowd that was growing
larger every minute. and then in a
moment there was a rush to the CEN
fer of the square, where stood large
teaden statue of King George Ill
Great ropes were wound around it
and willing hands clutched the loose
ends, and amid a deafenlng shout the
great figure came crashing to the
ground.
That same night Dorothy was awak-
6ned and found her father and mother
bending over her little bed, and she
WAS told TO get up at once and dress,
that messenger had come from Long
Island telling her father that his regl-
ment was preparing for conflict with
king Georges Hessians, who We're
about to land on the island, and that
he must return with all speed aad
6oin his own company.
J!As long as she lived Dorothy never
forgot that mysterious midnight rice
to her home. The Captain had want
ed to send his wife and daughter some
The free press., 1900-06-28
Awaits His Onnortunity

81 think that is the biggest giant
firecracker l ever saw. What are you
going to do with it?'
81 am going to use it in celebrating
July 4. There's a parrot on the porch
next door to my house, and when it
calls for a cracker on that day shall
give it this one.'-Chicago Tribune.
The free press., 1900-06-28

Tommy burned his fingers, Teddy burned
his thumb,
Bobby burst the head of his brand-new
drum,
Danny scorched his trousers, Dicky hurt
his eye,
But we all had a GLORIOUS Fourth of
Julyi
The free press., 1900-06-28
Where the Pinch Comes.

Banks-"Going to have fireworks at
your house on the Fourth!
Bings-"Nope." ~
Banks-"Can't afford them, eh?"
Bings-"Can afford the fireworks,
but 1 can't stand the surgeons bills.
Philadelphia North American.
The free press., 1900-06-28

"Give US an old-fashioned Fourth" is
the way
The papers are putting the matter to-
gay
Give US an od-fashioned Fourth, with
its fun and its noise;
Recollect all about it, l guess, don't
you, boys?
Its speech and procession, with fire
works at night,
And the red lemonade in long draughts
of delight!
The big wooden stand on the quaint
village green,
The flags and rosettes with the not
toes between;
The gaudy Home Guards and the big
country band,
The drum major marching with baton
in hand;
The man with q voice like a sawmill
or two,
Who sang of the flag of the Red,
White and Blue:
And the orator, well, was there ever
before
A man whose two lungs could hold
quite so much roar?
The free press., 1900-06-28

The women who are born to COM
mand always get married.