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The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

in the shape of a worm, but as a
beetle with a long snout. When au-
tumn comes, it waits upon the chest
nut tree or in it's neighborhood, if it
is a female, and chooses the proper
time for showing it's eggs into the
burrs when they are ripening. These
worms are the new crop, ready to be-
gin anew their destroying work, and
so the thing goes on from year to
year. In some seasons the beetles are
comparatively scarce, and chestnut
worms proportionately. Shippers of
chestnuts avoid sending their product
long distances, so far as is possible,
because the contents of the barrels
become heated as they call it, and
the worms are rapidly developed SO
that a consignment may reach the
market altogether unfit for use. The
best way to- prepare chestnuts is to
immerse them in boiling water for
about ten minutes as soon as gath
cred. Wormy nuts will float on the
surface and may be removed. All eggs
will be destroyed, and the condition of
the meat of the nut will be so changed
that it will not become fiinty by fur
ther curing for winter use. At the
some time it will be in nowise a
boiled chestnut The nuts may be
dried in the sun, or in dry houses,
after being placed in sacks in quanti-
ties to admit of their being spread to
the thickness of about two inches,
the sack frequently turned and
shaken. Dried by this method they
remain quite tender and retain for a
long time their delicious freshness
and flavor.
"The worm of which l have spoken
is not the only one that attacks the
chestnut. There is a species of moth
that lays its eggs upon the nuts as
they lie upon the ground, and the
little caterpillars hatched from the
eggs attack the fruit. The chestnut
worm also devours the hickory nut,
the chinquapin and the acorn"
Nut growers understand that from
the sprouting of the nut to the time
when fruit is harvested there is much
necessary care and culture common
to all species of nut-bearing trees. In
nut orchards varying distances are
found to be advantageous for plant
ing. The most widely prevailing error
has been in planting too close. Prop
agators of chestnuts and pecans in
sist that they do best without cult
vation.
One of the best-known growers in
forms the department of agriculture
that after a chestnut orchard has at
tanned bearing age it should be sown
with grass and pastured with sheep
to enrich the land. The department
believes that it is questionable econ
omy to tax the land for the produc-
tion of other crops at the same time
but concludes that ordinary cultiva-
tion does not injure chestnut trees.
Chestnuts are used very extensive
1y in the eastern and southern mar
kets, but their cultivation in the
states along the Mississippi and Ohio
valleys during the past ten years has
been very greatly increased. They are
usually bought in little bags on street
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
PRESS COMMENTS.

Mark Hanna might appear more
in the light of a disinterested states
man if he did not own any ships
Chicago Record Qnd.).
Hanna should make a stump
speech on his ship subsidy bill, if for
no other purpose than to give his
brother senators a taste of his quality
as ellbinder.-Kansas City Times.
Mr.. Mckinley regards the sur
plus with equanimity. 1t will further
the interests of his imperialistic policy
and Mark Hanna s ship subsidy scheme.
There is a lot of money; spend it,
Rochester Herald.
There is a necessarily comic air
about the presidents pious hope that
congress will be economical. Coming g
at the heels of recommendation that
call for needless millions, and coupled
with the well-known fact that McKin-
lev would no more veto an extrava-
giant appropriat tion bill than he would
try to fly from the white house to the
capitol, it will induce congressman only
to exchange solemn winks and then
fall to legislating that surplus out of
the treasury in as neat and speedy and
thoroughgoing fashion as possible.
N. Y. Post.
President Mckinley and his par
ty associates, it is said intend to take
the verdict at the polls last November
as an Endorsement and mandate, and
they are preparing to obey the man
date" at home and abroad. McKinley's
second term, to all intents and pur-
poses, has begun. He has taken the
country through the door of expansion.
He stands now ready to lead it into
what his friends are so fond of call
ing the golden era 1t is likely to be
a golden era in more respects than one
"a golden era for the goats as well as
for the sheep, and Washington is lit
orally overrun with lobbyists, attor-
neys. secret agents and outspoken
capitalists-all intriguing for a share
of the wealth that is to come from the
copia.-Baltimore Sun.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

One OF the learned )lOItSSOAS says
Dyspepsia is unknown in Italy where
olive oil is so freely used as to be al
most nauseating to people of this
country who visit there. But physi-
clans who understand their business
prescribe olive oil in this country in
cases of acute dyspepsia, and always
with favorable results. | believe that
cottonseed oil, and peanut oil, and
chestnut oil are as beneficial for the
people of this country as olive oil is
for the people of Italy; and [ am in
clined to think that those oils are bet
ter for our people, because nature has
provided them in such luXuriant abun-
dance. And I think that the best way
to assimilate those oils is to take them
directly from the nuts, by making
them part of the table food"
Cultivators say that there is great
variation in the fruitfulness of individ-
ual trees even when their environments
are similar, and almost identical.
Most species of both sees are bisexual
that is, the flowers of both sexes
are on a single tree. But exceptions
have been noticed by many observers
of supposed unisexual individuals
that is, having the flowers of the two
sexes on different trees. In such
cases trees of both sexes must be
planted in close proximity in order to
secure good crops of fruit.
This is a singular fact, known to very
few readers and ordinary observers,
that trees and other plants have sexes.
Learned men know such facts, but COM
mon everyday newspaper men and
readers of newspapers know not this
wonderful provision of nature. There
are male trees and female trees, or
there are fruit flowers of both sexes
growing on the same tree.
The male flowers of the chestnut are
produced in the axis of successive or
alternate leaves in early June, in cylin-
drical catkins as long as the leaves, and
| sometimes longer They appear after
| the leaves are nearly grown, later than
the bloom of most other trees. The fe-
male flowers are borne in four-pointed
burrs on stiff pixies which grow from
the axis of the leaves on the extended
shoot. They are thus developed later
and on younger wood than the male
blossoms. Very rarely the trees of the
American chestnut have the habit of
maturing fruit from ALL or nearly all,
of the female flowers along the entire
spike.
There are European and japanese
chestnuts in our markets, and they
used to have preference over the Amer
lean product, but during the last ten
years the foreign chestnuts have been
almost driven from our markets by the
cultivation and extensive marketing OF
our own growths. The imported trees
and seedlings have been killed by oul
severe winters, and the trees which ma
ture intended for American growth re-
tain their natural precedence.
But these men of science would give
us so much information of a technical
character that we would become con-
fused in the presence of the harmless
and nutritious, as we'll as palatable,
nut food, and we will simply take their
word for the attested fact that they
are good for our health, good for our
stomachs, good for our systems, and
take them home for preparation and
consumption. And the more the bet
ter. SMITH D. FRY.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
HACKBAY'S DIS
TINGUISHED UNCLE

HACKBAY had lived in Chicago
ever since he was five years old,
but for some time he did not seem to
get thoroughly assimilated. He never
boasted of the city's growth and never
expatiated on its liveliness, its wick
edness or it's wealth. He had no pride
in it's tall buildings, in the stock
yards or the drainage canal, and he
had been known to speak in dispar'
aging terms of the worlds fair. AL
the enthusiasm within him was re-
served for New Bedford first and Mas
sachusetts afterward. He was born
in New Bedford, and his father and
his fathers father before him had
been born there. His infant eyes had
opened upon the prospect of the gray
Atlantic, and his small, bare hand had
padded in the limpid waters of Buz-
Yards bay; SO that you could not talk
to him about Lake Michigan. He had
inhaled the off-shore New Bedford
breezes, laden with the pungent
odors of the soap and candle factories
and the whale oil refneries-so that
he held the stockyards in contempt
He had memories of the old city hall
which dwarfted the Masonic temple
and the whiffs of Boston atmosphere
borne on the wings of the north wind
had broadened his as and apparently
narrowed his views of everything out
side of the Old Bay state.
He only went back once, neverthe.
less, but if the visit modified his rec
objections of his early home and the
town hall he never acknowledged it
1t appears that he hunted up most OF
his relations and visited around
among them, returning with the fam
lily tree ramifying through his system
and out of his fingers ends.
A fine family, those Hackbays, by
his unbiased account of them-the
women rosy-cheeked and blooming,
notable housewives or maidens of in
finite eruditioD; the men either of the
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
THE WIND.

/ heard a Wind come through the wood.
Her voice was like the voice of grief,
But not a word l understood.
She rocked the nest of many a bir~,
She pushed aside the little leaves.
The anguish of her voice l heard.
1 listened while her deepening moan
Grew nearer; then my heart beheld
The beauty of her eyes alone
Her look was fixed on some far place.
She saw me not, though, as she sped,
Her draperies did touch my face.
1 felt the passing of her hair;
Then was she gone, and did strive
In vain to trace her through the air.
For some evanished morning mist
1t must have been she grieved so
For some lost fountain she has kissed:
Or Fate had driven her afar
Beyond the things she thought were
sure
The melting snow, the burning star.
One thing I know, that in her grief
The birds were hushed, the flowers
were sad,
And sorrowed every little leaf.
Henry Bannister Merwin, in N. Y.
Home Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

CHESTNUTS this season are very
" wormy, and many people are
asking how does the worm get
into the chestnut?
The entomologist of the depart
ment of agriculture, who knows all
about all sorts of bugs, says: "The
worm is put into the chestnut by a
long-snouted beetle. This insect has
proboscis of most extraordinary pro-
portions, as much as twice the length
of its body. In the business it con-
ducts such an exceptional nose is alb
solutely necessary, inasmuch as when
the female desires to lay her eggs
she crawls over the chestnut burr as
it hangs on the tree not yet ripe,
and seeks the little opening at the
top, through which she inserts the
snout. The snout thus introduced is
projected down through the thick,
prickly husk to the chestnut inside.
1t may be that the beetle thrusts her
proboscis actually through the shell
of the nuts themselves, but my i'm
preston is that she simply lays her
eggs and pushes them with her snout
in among the nuts, leaving them there
to be hatched, after which the little
worms bore their way in search of
food into the kernels through holes
so small as to be imperceptible. At
all events they are quickly closed up
with the growth of the nuts.
''You never find worms in chest
nuts you obtain by smashing the
green burrs open. 1t is only the nuts
that are found upon the ground loose,
or taken from ripened burrs that have
fallen, which appear to contain these
unpleasant intruders. Presumably
the reason for this is that the worm,
imperceptibly small in the freshly de-
veloped nut, begins to feed and to
grow very rapidly as soon as the
fruit has become ripe. At all events,
you never find a worm in a chestnut
that has hole in it, but only the
destroyed meat that it has eaten and
discarded. When the creature has fin
ished devouring the kernel it bores
its way out through the shell and
leaves the hole behind it,
''By the time the worm has con-
sumed it's chestnut and crawled out
to look upon the world the weather
has begun to be pretty cold, and it
seeks shelter by burrowing into the
ground, where it lies in torpid con-
dition for many months. Eventually
from the earth it energies, though not
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

One reason for this is that con-
gressmen are influenced more by the
persistent solicitations of lobbyists
than bv calm consideration of their
constituents interests. Any man who
votes for the ship subsidy bill, donating
$9,OOO.OOO a year for 80 years, will be
voting to tax his constituents in that
proposition for the benefit of few
rich corporations. Ii is easy to forget
this fact in an atmosphere like that at
Washington. The presence of treas
ury surplus seems to contaminate the
air itself with a mania for getting hold
of the public funds for private profit.
The wise congressman will keep clear
of the surplus spoiIers.-Chicago Trib-
une (Rep.).
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

Y.
good, rugged New England type" or
of the ''true scholarly appearance, -
according to trade or professionalism
is, whether they were in the boot and
shoe, fishery or farming connection or
held down "chairs" of one kind or an
other at Cambridge or elsewhere.
They all seemed to run to boots and
shoes, cod and mackerel, farming or
chairs" and they were all cousins
some of the most impossible degrees.
1t was thought by the way Hackbay
raved about those female cousins that
he would have returned and married
one of them, but he succumbed to a
Chicago girl.
Back home," said Hackbay, 1--WE
hold by the old saying that blood is
thicker than water; we know our kim
dred and take a proper pride in the
traditions and history of our family.
We have family ideals and we try, ac-
cording to our lights, to live up to
them. 1t is 'Hackbay's obliges' with
us.
''Of course some of US fall by the
wayside, but they are still Hackbays
and they will never lack a helping
hand or a welcome from their more
fortunate relatives. But they are rare
exceptions. New Englanders are
thrifty, provident, Industrious and in
dependent, as general thing, and
think l may say without vanity that
our family is no exception to the
rule"
Then he would brag about John
Hackbay's commentary on the talmud
and Seth Hackbay's feet of whalers
and Hosea Hackbay's shoe factories
and the Yankee dialect (Which he
called English undefiled'0, and the
school statistics of Massachusetts, an6
Plymouth Rock, and King Phillip, un
til people said: well, they guessed
it was about time they were going
and they didn't think they had been il
any rush."
One of Hackbay's pet themes wa.
Uncle Jonas. Uncle Jonas had beer
of an adventurous spirit, and had rur
away from home and shipped as
cabin boy on a vessel bound for thv
Indies. There it was reported that hi
had become the favorite and grant
vizier of nawab, and had amassed in
calculable treasures of pearls ant
rubies and lakhs of rupees. Once h,
had written to Cousin Hosea from
Singapore, where he had been, he said
ON affairs of state, and he declared hi
intention of returning to New Bedfort
at the earliest opportunity to end hi
days among his kin and enrich the de
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
A Stolen March.

The famous composer sat in the orchestra
chair and listenedSto the comic opera OF his
rival. As the chorus roared out swinging,
familiar air, the tears started to the great
musicians eyes. "Ah, he said, sadly, i
a march on me-" To those familiar with his
works, the truth of this remark would have
been pparent-Princeton Tiger.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
THE STANDING ARMY.
A Serious Question for Americans to
Think Over in All It's
Aspects.

That was plain statement of truth
made by Congressman Cochran, of
Missouri, when, in opposing the adj
ministration army increase bill, he
asserted that the permanent enlarge
ment of the American military estab-
lishment would contain the essence
of Imperialism and mark a departure
from the principles of constitutional
government.
The only excuse for the permanent
increase of the army to a total of 100,-
900 men is found in the conditions eX-
isting in the Philippines. That it is
necessary, for the maintenance of
American prestige, to suppress the ma
tive insurrection in those islands, if
we are to hold them as subject terri
tory, may not be denied. Mr.. Coch-
ran argues that no army on earth
can conquer and pacify the people
of the Philippines.
If this is true we should not desire
to assume the responsibility for an
unending war on people so pledged
to freedom that they cannot be sub
jugated. If it is untrue, and the in
surrection may be suppressed within
a reasonable time, there should need
to be only another volunteer army
raised, say on three-years' enlist
ment, for the purpose of prosecuting
the war to a finish.
1t is certain that, if we are not
committed to a policy of foreign con-
quest, there is now no more need for
an army of 100000 men than there
was before the war with Spain. If
the Filipinos shall be subdued and
shall consent to our government, will
not the troops be withdrawn from
their territory? And do we need a
regular army of 100000 men in this
country? Americans should devote
some thought to this question. 1t is
vital with significance for the future
of American institutions.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
An Unfortunate Occurrence

Lucinda-What stahted de row at
de station?
Melinda-Dat vulgah Jim Johnsing
went a little too fab.
Lucinda-How's dat?
Melinda-Why, he Irowed hull
rice puddin' at de groom! Puck.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
RPlIFiIlGPrs

There are 1890 church bellringers
in the diocese of Oxford. This is the
largest number in any English do
cese. Exeter comes second and Devon
third.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
SURE

This age demands men who have
convictions shouted the impassioned
orator. 'Where shall we find them?"
in prison!" replied the man in the
gallery.-N. Y. World.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
Vice Versa.

Tigg-There's one good thing about these
college yells.
Wjgg-What is it?
'They can't sing those glee songs while
they are yelling Baltimore American.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
Nnf in Him

Photographer-Now, then, be per-
fectly natural. Look pleasant
Krusty-Say, are yor poking fun
at ne? l can't do bOth-Philadel-
Dhia Press.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
KANSAS AND MISSOURI

People cured by KD-NE-0IDS. In writing them
please enclose stamped addressed envelope.
Andrew Jacobson, s2S Lavinie St., Atchison, Kas.
Andrew Tedman, Soldiers Home Leavenworth.KaS
H. A. Wills, S02 4th St., Topeka Kas.
]. W. Powers, Lamar Mo.
Mrs. A. r. Winters, $40 Porter St., Moberly, Mo.
Mrs. Mary Alnut, n. Cherry ST., Chillicothe, Mo-
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Christian, $40 E. 9Th St., Sedalia, Mo-
Morrow's Kid-ne-oids are not pills.
but Yellow Tablets and sell at fifty
cents box at drug stores.
JOHN MORROW AGO.. SPRINGFIELD. o.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31

An Atchison girl is always referred to as
"the late Miss Bank" not because she is
dead, but for the reason that she is never
on time.-Atchison Globe.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
CHANGED EVERY SECOND.

"A wise man changes his mind, but
a fool never does
Then my wife must be a second
Solomon. Chicago Chronicle.
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
CHESTNUTS OF 1900.
Entomologists Declare Them to Be a
Wormy Lot.
Wonders of Insect Life Are Almost t
as incOmpreh to the Aver
age Man as the Marvels of
Plant Life.
Especial Washington Letter.l

.HESTNUTS this season are very
I \ wormy, and many people are
asking how does the worm get
The Winslow mail., 1901-01-31
KID-NE -OIDS

will arrest the disease and under most
solemn guarantee effect a cure where
it is possible by human means.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-20
Montpelier & Wells Rsx~
er r. r. Time Table

corrected to June "a, 1901, Trsipa
leave Barre as follows, going east.
100 A. M-Connec = at Wells r. =.
er VITA Acc mmoda'ion train .o,.,g
ana s"uth oven Psssumrsic Div. e ~
NJ. Il FOR It. Johuatury, Naw,sors
ana VIII e River J t.. With Ao:,ne.
modati"n troin nor h over White ss,s.
DIV. b x NJ. Il. R. hr Lisbon. H..
tleton, Lancaster, Fay ans. Bcthl,s9
hem and frofile House. Thru.sA
train service from Wells River VA.
lyme tn or White River JunctlcG N.
boston. ANive Boston 4 As D. ~
WIN Ne" York express via Belloyx
Falls, Springfield, Hartford md New
Haven, arriving Grand Central D.
pot New York, 40 p. m. Taroava
coaches n parlor cars Wells Rivers.
New York.
1245 P. M.-Through Exrrvss.
WIN Pullman parlor car, Burlil y,vx
u Fay bars. S'ops at all princ:,a3
stations between Wells RiveHand Fav.
BANS arriving at Faybans 4 90 .. q:
Conn cts at Faybans with ,rata NV
Portland and Oid Orchard Beacg
with train for Summit mt. Wass4su..
ton .r1ivirg Summit G so D. m. On.
meets AT Wells River with mail trasx
moth over the tassumpsic Div, slsp
western Express via Canadian pacsse
ny lnr Montreal. Que bee Chicago mi
the Pac'hc Coast. Through sleeuIxr~
cars Montreal to Chicago every d.
exec pit saturdays. To Pacific CoaS
ever! DAY except Sundays. With aos
ton cypress, las parlor car. arr,yIrp
IN 3 ston at s 90 p m. With t-sjx
Ior Lancaster, Whltefeld, Jerarscs.
Berlin: GEtyeruon ard G,a1d IrJris
r. r.. ~
3.15 P. M.-Ccnnecrs az Waa
River with Express train norts, owe
3. X NJ r. r. for St. Johnsbury, Eyn.
nonvllle' Barton and Newport, win
accommodation train south for sI
between Wells River ama
wl'lte River Jet. With Express trxiu
north over White Mt. Div. for Ltsbou,
Littleton, Bethlehem Street: ProaE
a. use, Twin Mountain, Faybaux.
'oAeISOH duO Lancaster.
TRAINS WEST
trains leave Wells RIVER at 5.x.
30 a. m 235. $3.50, p. m.
arrive Barre 1905, A M, l2sM,,
40. P M.
sUBuRBAN TRAIN SERVICE.
Leave Montpelier 6 30, 0.45, X
H. NJ. ? 80, 3 So, 5.25 P. NJ.
rive Barre $50, 10 o5 A. A..
2.l', 25. 40, 5 40 p. M.
Leave Barre 7.30, 10 20 An.
40, 3 Is. 4.15, 5.45 P. M,
Afllve M ntpelier 7.45. TO- IS Az
90, 3 80. 4.35, 6 90 P. NJ.
" a: sToWELf, General MANAGE.
T. ". SIANYAN, Superintendent.
r." MORSE, Gent Pass. AgenI
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1901-07-20
MOUNTAIN AIR.
Why 1t II More Healthful Than That
of Lower Altftudes.

The only reason why mountain all
Is healthier than low air is that noun
tain air is cleaner than low air. The
composition Of the atmos
phere differs but little. if at all, wher.
ever the sample be taken. On Pixies
peak the relation of oxygen to nitro
gen and other constituents of the at
mosphere Is the same as at the level
or the ocean,. The favorable effects
therefore Of a change Of air are not to
be explained by any difference in the
proportion Of its gaseous constituents.
One important difference. however, is
the meteorological one. The air of
nigh attitudes contains no microbes
and Is. In fact. sterile, while near the
ground and some. 100 feet above it
microbes are abundant. >~~~,
In the air Of Chicago and other
crowded places not only does the mi.
crobe impurity increase. but other i'm.
purities. such as the products Of com.
bustfon of coal. accrue also. Several
investigators have found traces Of by.
drogen and certain hydrocarbons in
the air, and especially In the air of pine.
OAK and birch forests. 1t is to those
bodies. doubtless consisting of traces
or essential oils. to which the curative
eHects of certain health resorts are
ascribed. Thus the locality Of a fir
[orest Is said to give relief In diseases
OF the respiratory tract. But all the
same. these traces Of essential oils and
aromatic products must be counted.
strictly speaking. as impurities, since
hev are not apparently necessary con.
OF the an. AS recent analy.
les nave shown. these bodies tend IN
|'sappear in the air as q higher alti.
ude is reached until they disappear
together. Louisville Dispatch.