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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
AGRICULTURE.
How to Build 1t and to Handle Hay
Successfully,


How to Build 1t and to Handle Hay
Successfully,
But few of the farmers in this section
who have several acres of clover or
timothy for hay have sufficient storage
room for it. A part often must be
stacked or ricked out of shelter. Quite
a number use a derrick to aid in this
work, writes J. NJ. JamisOn to the Ohio
Farmer. The accompanying illustra-
ton shows the style of derrick in gen
eral use. l give the dimensions of the
one have used for three years
The pulleys, fork and rope are the
same that are used in the barn, making
the working cost of the derrick very
light. The base of the frame is s feet
square, 10 feet high and 8 feet square
at the top. The pole is "a feet long,
but should be at least 30 feet. The
long arm is II feet, long end 10 feet,
short end feet, long brace 10 TeeL
short one feet, end of long arm %
feet high, but should be 80 feet.
The pole has a hole bored through it
about three feet from the ground,
through which is inserted strong iron
bar to turn the arm of the derrick over
the rick when loaded and drawn up.
The pulley at the lower side of the
frame should be so placed that it will
aid in turning the arm of the derrick
over the rick. The trip rope to the hay
fork does not show in this illustration.
l use the derrick to rick clover hay
and find that to handle the hay sue
cessfully with the fork it should be put
up In large cocks and allowed to stand
till it settles. 4 small haycock for
stacking with a derrick Is a nuisance.
To be able to build these large cocks
without too much carrying Of the hay
rake the clover with sweep rake 20
feet long, teeth six feet long, drawn by
two horses. Two rakefuls make one
good cock. In hauling to the stack
use this sweep rake and haul two or
three cocks at a time. In this way
can keep the stackers going. This year
l shall try stacking from the wind
row by using sled and hay sings, two
or three slings to a sled. If this will
work, and feel sure that it will, 1t will
save the labor of cooking.
In ricking clover hay with a derrick
the ricks should be made long and
narrow and as high as possible. 1t
| takes no more material to cover high
rick than a low one. A rick with a
bulge requires too much cover to pro-
tect 1t. Hence the sides should be
nearly straight till necessary to draw
in for the top. With the aid Of the Ger
rick the only hard work necessary is
that of the trampers and stackers. 1t
needs a man to set the fork, man to
revolve the derrick on its pivot and
two men on the stack. Boys can ride
the horses to haul in the hay and the
horse that works the fork.
BY making runners of the lower part
of the frame this derrick can be
drawn to different parts Of the field
and from one field to another over
level land without taking down the
poles.
The derrick should be put together
with bolts, so that 1t can be taken dowT
and stored in shelter when not in use
If not taken down, it makes a good
weather vane, but not an attractive
field ornament.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Bound to Enjoy Herself.

"Now, DEAR" said mamma, giving
final instructions to Elsie, who is going
to take tea with a playmate, when you
are asked if you will have something,
you must say, Yes, thank you and If
you don't want it you must say
"Oh, you needn't bother about that"
Elsie interrupted. II don't expect to
refuse NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Press.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Wife, mended the hole in your
trousers pocket last night after you
had gone to bed, John, dear. Now, am
I not a thoughtful wife?
Husband Observation-Disclosures,
YOU are thoughtful enough, my dear,
but how the mischief did you discover
that there was hole In my pocketa-
Exchange.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

"Not that deceit is a born instinct,
but some babies must be two faced in
the cradle"
ooh, that's not possible"
II don't know. l know child that
looks like its rich aunt when she comes
on a visit and is the exact image Of its
rich uncle when he happens to be
there."-Exchange
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Liberal and Ordinary Feeding Com
pared-What Nitrate Does.

The accompanying reproduction Of
two baskets of potatoes harvested
about the first week In October last
from seed planted June 10 represents
secured from liberal feeding and a
very thorough cultivation and from
ordinary methods Of fertilization and
culture in the same field on identically
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

1t is an undoubted fact that the hui
man body is shorter at night than in
the morning, and that is due to the
weight Of the body COMPRISING the
intervertebral cartilages. During sleep
or while in recumbent position, the
pressure being removed, their natural
elasticity enables them to resume their
normal size; consequently the height OF
an individual will vary from three
eighths to half an inch between morn
ling and night.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
Keeping a Smooth Road In Summer.

In the summer when roads get
roughed up they can be materially i'm
proved at small expense by running
over them with d harrow, having the
teeth down quite fiat. If the roads are
a little muddy. this treatment will
make them dry faster, and also make
them much more pleasant to use after
they have dried.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
No Difficulty.

Phillips Brooks once gave new YER
sion of the Jonah story to wondering
skeptic, who said he doubted whether
a whales throat was large enough to
swallow Jonah. "There was no diff
Guilty" said the bishop; Jonah was one
of the minor prophets"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
In the Dumps.

There was once upon a time an
Egyptian king, so it is said, who built
d pyramid and died Of melancholy. His
name was Dumops. The memory of
his tragic history is perpetuated every
time we say we are sin the dumps"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
What Shall We Have for Dessert

This question arises in the family every
'uay. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-
IT, a delicious and healthtul desert. Pre-
pared IN two minutes. No boiling! no
.oakng add boiling water and set to
Fool Flavors:-Lemon, orange, rasp-
| Eo and strawberry. At your grocers,
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
A Long Wait.

Katrine-I was reading this morning
of a man who cooked his own break
fast for 10 years.
Max-He must have been very hun
CRY when he finally got it DONE
Bombe.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

A medical journal declares that len
tils are not only richer In proteids than
peas or beans, but are also more
digestible.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
WEST CONCORD.

Mrs. L. M. Moody will have mark
down sale of summer millinery, beginning
July GOTH She will sell for the next 80
days at greatly reduced prices.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17
EAST CONCORD.

Rev. r. S. Sideinger will preach in the
Free Baptist church in the Texas district
next Sunday morning at II o'clock.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

The only two great European capitals.
that never have been occupied by a
foreign foe are London aud st. Peters
burg. !
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

comes from the varnish in Devoe's Var
nish Floor Paint; costs cents more a
quart though. Sold by Flint Bros.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-07-17

Rev. Edward Smiley of North Hatley,
P. @, gave an interesting address on the
theme "Universalst Faith an Educator"
followed by Miss Alice J. Allen OF Water
loo, P @, who spoke for the W. c. A.,
and Mrs. Maria Tinker of Morrisville
spoke for mission circle. Rev. D. A. Ball,
superintendent of churches, closed the
morning session by an address on 1.-THE
Issue" The afternoon session began by
song service by the choir. Dr. l. P.
Booth OF MorrisviIle gave a helpful adj
dress, the subject being God with U.s."
Mrs. Willard Chase of this place read
a helpful paper on Sunday school work
which was folio wed by brief discussion.
After fine musical selection, Rev. A. F.
Walch Of St. Johnsbury, delivered
very interesting sermon from the text,
Come Ye After Me-" A committee was
appointed to work with the officers to
make hecentennial of this association a
memorable occasion, the session closed
with singing and the benediction. The
following officers were elected for the
year: President, ]. E. Dwinell, Glover |;
ce-president, Rev. A. M. Smith, West
Concord; secretary and treasurer, Miss
Martha A. Jenness, St. Johnsbury. The
meetings were grand success, only
two persons having their names on the
program failing to be present. The
singing which was in charge of Prot. H.
H. May was very fine and added much
to the meetings.
Several Masons from this place attend
ed the dedication of the new masonic
building at Guildhall last week.
Mrs. o. D. Cobleigh visited her daugh.
ter, Mrs. Will Braley, at Hartford last
week.
The l. 0, 0. F. entertained Iargecom.
| pany at their hall, Friday evening. Ice
cream and cake were served.
Miss c. E. Wadleigh, who has been
spending the past few weeks at Lowell
with her sister, Mrs. Susan Hunter, has
returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hull and Miss
Pearl of St. Johnsbury were in town,
Friday.
Allen Kinnston of Boston is visiting at
c. H. Titon's.
Miss Nina Quimby has gone to Old
| Orchard for the summer.
Mrs. Wesley Burroughs is visiting at
W. L. Reeds.
Mrs. Ball. who has been spending sew.
eral weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Jack
Mann, returned to her home at Wheel.
ock last week.
Arthur Baker. while riding bicyc1e
last Monday evening, which he was un
able to manage, ran into a tree near D
Fl. Mortons, and it was feared for a
short time he was severely injured, but
he has recovered.
Prof. H. H. May, Mrs. Wesley Bur
roughs and George Colby are rendering
valuable assistance in the Universalist
church choir. The pastor and people en-
JOY the fine singing.
DR.. R. T. Johnson has purchased thu
X. S. Human residence.
Fred Seavey and his mother, Mrs
Spencer, who have been visiting friends
in Orleans county the past few weeks
returned last Monday. Since his return
Mr.. Seavey has not been as we'll as hi
friends could wish.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Whitehouse have re
turned to Groveton, N. H., their forme
home.
Mrs. Clarence Cutting and son visteC
friends in Grovetou the past week.
Mrs. Thomas of Salem, Mass, is visit
ing her brother, L. L. Shackford.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18

and was on his way to Hastings,
on the train His widow lives in La
Crosse Mr.. Thurber was SO years Of
age.
Major George II. Palmer retired.
died suddenly at his home lear
Durand, ILL., He was veteran of civil
ard Cuban wars. He served in the
regular army twenty-five years AMI
was in the sixteenth infantry at Boise
city at the outbreak of the CuD1n
war. Two of his sons are now in tho
service, and two daughters are mar
ried to army officers. Major Palmer
was 81 years old. :.
DR. William Jay Youmans, for many
years editor Of the Popular Science
Monthly, is dead at his home in Mount
Vernon, n Y. Of typhoid fever. He
was deeply attached to handsome
farm possessed by him among the
hills near Saratoga, n. Y, where he
was born Oct II. 1885 and near which
he began his education in a dist let
school nr. loumans graduated in
medicine from New York university
with 2 degree in 1865 He established
the Popular Science Monthly IN 1872
and had been its sole editor since the
death of his brother.
Rev Martin r. Bowling of Port
Chester, n. y, died, He leaves a
fortune estimated at 100000, all of
which was made during the last few
years through speculation in Wall
street. Most of it, it is said. is left
to charity Father Bowling was born
in ireland and while still a boy came
to this country. He was ordained ar
3. Johns seminary tifty-three years
ago and for forty-fve years mad
charge of st. Mary's church, Port
Chester. A few years ago he began
to speculate in Wall street, and IL
seemed that in every deal he came out
ahead. Father Bowling was a lover
of fast horses and always drove a
speedy one.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
NEWS OF TEE WORLD.
insular Affairs.


Civil government in the Philippines
will be established about July l.
Ensurgent officers and 5000 OF the
Filipino war fund were captured by
American troops.
1t is believed IN Manila that some
important fact concerning Aguinaldo
is being concealed.
Five hundred Fiipinos are to be en-
listed to man small gulDoats in
their native archipelago
The cabinet decided that an i'm
mediate decrease IN the army in the
Philippines is impracticab!e.
The Cuban constitutional convention
revoked its resolution against sending
a commission to Washington.
The Cuban constitutional conven
ton, by vote Of "a to 2, rejected a
motion to accept the Platt Amendment.
The Japanese foreign Office Is salts
fed with the cars pledges concern
ing Manchuria. The recent alarm is
ended.
Lieutenant James Mckinley, the
president > IitiutH, iNtHi hN' ''N''
Philippines with General Young, to
whose staff he is attached.
Since the United States acquired
Porto Rico 5000 of the islanders have
emigrated, two-thirds of them going
TO Hawaiian sugar plantations,
Japan's reserve cruisers have been
commissioned for war and shipping
companies have been ordered to hold
their vessels ready for transport ser
vice
Aguinaldo Is to be removed to a res
idence in the fashionable quarter OF
Manila. His kind treatment Is caus'
ing anger among the Filipinos OF the
city.
Lieut.. j. d. Taylor, jr., by kindness
and the present of cigar apiece,
secured from seven Filipinos the in.
formation which led to the capture of
Agunaldo.
General Tung Flu Slang, with an
army of 10000 men. started a reVolu-
ton in northern China. The province
Of Shensi. where the court Is now To-
Gated, is threatened by revolution.
An important feature in connection
with the establishment Of civil govern
ment in the Philippines will be the Sc
lection of an officer who will rank in
authority between the president and
Governor Taft
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
POSSE FINALLY CORNERS GANG
OF DEsPERADoES.
FIERCE BATTLE FOLLOWS
And Two Men Are Killed and Two
Wounded - Fighting Heard hr.
teen Miles-Gov. Beckham Ap-
pealed To For Troops But These
Found Unnecessary.

Whitesburg, KY, April 1.-two
fight between Sheriff John W.
Wright and his deputies on one side
and the desperadoes who robbed ana
murdered the aged Mrs. Jemina Hall
and her son recently. The fight
occurred on the mountain top, be-
tween Boon's fork and Mills tone creek.
Wright and his posse started out sew
eral months ago to capture the gang
that cruelty tortured and murdered an
aged widow and her son and burned
their bodies with the little hut in
which they lived.
Yesterday John and Morgan Rey
nolds, Isaac and Greed Porter and
Geo. Newcome were located by q
posse in rendezvous on top Of the
mountain. Morgan Reynolds, New
come and Isaac Porter went away,
and while they were gone the officers
suddenly confronted Greed Porter nd
John Reynolds and all of them, ten in
number, opened fire. The desperadoes
replied with rifles and revoivers and
| more than 800 shots were exchanged
at a distance of less than dozen
| PAGES. Reynolds received a serious If
! not fatal wound in the left shoulder.
| Of the posse, William Wright, aged
IS. was killed by steel bullet, Isaac
| Willard, aged q, was shot through the
heart. A third man named Osborne
was struck in the right leg and Sc
yerely hurt. Young Wright joined ;he
| posse about a month ago to avenge the
murder of his father, w. S. Wright,
whom the gang assassinated a year
| ago.
The fighting was heard a dis.
| lance of thirteen miles. 1t was at first
| feared the posse had been defeated
and Gov. Beckham was telegraphed to
send state troops to capture the gang.
When it was learned, however, that
the posse had been victorious another
message was sent to the effect that nc
| troops were needed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18

says the New York Sun. NOWADAYS
1t Is done with an electrical con.
trivance which etches a design finely
and painlessly. Colored inks are used
and their use Is a secret which Tho
Japanese artists have mastered ia
perfection. There are books Of won.
derful colored designs for tatooio,
which one can choGse from BIRDS
beasts and reptiles. The snake ~ !,
favorite with the tattooed, some NJ
whom have one represented as Deing
wound about the arm from the wrjs,
to the shoulder Women who 20 in
for this fad choose, as rule. some
small, dainty and less terrin..no
pattern, butterflies being the popular
fashion at present. New Yorks
tattooer visits the houses of his fash.
ionable patrons. At hardly any Aonr
cf the day is he disengaged, as
steady stream of less fashioaabl.
customers throng his shop for the
purpose OF having various designs Of
trade, religious symbols, portraits
landscapes and names sketched upon
their arms in colored inks.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
Foreign.

An anti-British demonstration took
place in Berlin.
King Christian of Denmark OBJ
served his eighty-third birthday.
A British garrison surrenders to a
superior force Of beers after hard
fight.
Lo Steele, the leading Dreyfusite
organ in Paris. was forced to suspend
for lack of readers.
c. NJ. Agnew returned to London
with the stolen Gainsborough portrait,
recovered in Chicago.
Botha reopened negotiations for
peace after learning from personal
visit that Dewet is mentally irrespon-
sible.
Emperor William. in speech at
Potsdam, is quoted as predicting that
troublous times are coming to Ger
many.
The car, in an Imperial receipt
says the time has come for thorough
revision of the Russian educational
system
Ex-Governor Bradley of Kentucky
revealed new feature Of tho Goeael
assassination, His story involves w,
S. Taylor.
French, italian, and Spanish war
ships welcomed President Loubet to
Toulon The Russian fleet welcomed
ham at Nillefranche.
The Hawaiian house Of represen-
tatives refused to receive a COM
municgtion from Governor Dole be
cause not properly signed
Adyices from BenghaZi state that
the sultan OF Wadai, finding himself
helpless against the rebellion. has
asked the assistance of the French,
which has been promised.
Steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse arrived at Cherbourg with
three gold bars missing which are
valued at 100000. They were stolen
on the passage over.
The Sun state from the pope has ap-
pointed Mgr. Reginald Pho de Ray
mond to bring the red bere<ta and
xuchetta for the elevation OF
Martinelli to the eardinalAtA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
NUZZlEO DUCKS.
Not Because They Might Bite, But to
Silence Their Quackin0.

Not Because They Might Bite, But to
Silence Their QuackinO.
A baggage man on the Santa Fe
who runs into Kansas City from out
in the western part of Kansas has lost
lots OF sleep 1t Is doubtful if he can
ever catch up with it. He leaves
Hutchinson at night and reaches Kan
sas City in the morning. Nearly every
night he brings in his car two or three
coops of live domestic ducks. During
the night, when he has no baggage to
deliver at small stations, 1t has been
his habit and privilege to lie down on
an improvised couch and doze. With
the advent of the ducks the doing
stopped The almost constant Quack-
ing OF the ducks, who could not under
stand their strange environment.
would not permit of sleep.
For many nights as he lay awake he
planned relief He thought of strangl-
ing the ducks or chloroforming them.
But neither expedient seemed good.
One night bright idea came to him.
After he had put it into execution the
ducks were silent.
The next night he had two coops OF
unusually yociferous ducks. As soon
as it came time for sleep he wrenchcd
STAT from one Of tho coops. reached
in and pulled out a duck. From his
pocket he took small rubber band,
which he slipped over the ducks bin
just back of the nostrils. The duck
tried TO quack. but the rubber band,
while it stretched little, would not
permit the duck TO open its bill far
enough to use IT'S tongue Only
murmur came from it, One by one
the ducks were muzzled, and the bag
gage man rested comfortably.
The commission men were surprised
next morning when they received a lot
OF ducks with rubber bands around
their bills, and when the bands were
removed the shouts of protest from
the ducks were deafening kansas
City Star.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-04-18
VANISHING CAYUSE.
And Now the Jack Rabbit is Gonq
Too

Anu INOW lfic JACK hdDDit Is IOlnQ
Too.
Twenty years ago, or even ten or
five years since, the mustang and the
jack rabbit were two of the common
est pests in the west. On every plain
and mesa. in each spot where a par
ticle of green feed found livelihood,
beneath the shelter of dusty sage
brush or a thorned mesquite, the little
hardy, shaggy cayuse and the long
cared, alert and rapid jack rabbit
browsed in peace and quietude. A
rider across the arid wilds of the great
southwest could count, if he desired,
hundreds and thousands of the why
wild horses, and from every bush jack
hurried away from the path of the
traveller, gray streak, scurrying over
the sand and gracefully sailing over
obstucting brush-the kangaroos of
America.
Now not a mustang can be found in
q days travel, or weeks, and only
an infrequent jack breaks in on the
monotony of desert rifle. Ten years
ago 100000 mustangs were scattered
over the ranges in Texas, New Mexico
and Arizona. AS the bicycle grew in
favor the horse decreased in value,
and the mustang became an outcast
and an outlaw. He intruded on the
cattle ranges and was shot for his
pains, the cowmen intent on the saw
ing of feed for their stock. He ven
tured amid the sheep flocks and the
coyotes Toasted on his carcass. Every
where he was a worthless reprobate,
an interloper, and valuable only as
target for the revolver of the vaquero.
BY inbreeding the species grew small
er, and the mustangs finish was per-
ceivable. The extremely low price
of high-grade eastern horses put the
cayuse out of service, and his only
haven of refuge was among the In
dians. The red men harbored him,
fed him and tanned him, and today on
the reservations can be found the last
of his race, disappearing as did the
buffalo. but from a different cause.
His determination was rapid and
somewhat of a mystery. Many stock
men attribute it merely to degenera
ton, but closer observers assert that
many thousands OF the ponies Of the
desert were surreptitiousiy converted
into canned beef, and are even now be-
ing served over eastern tables and
army messes as a select product of the
cattle range AS to that other pest,
the jack rabbit his extinction is only a
matter of no great length OF time.
is crowding him out, ana
the aborigine is slaughtering him,
and between two fires he cannot last
Republican.