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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-25
MARTHuR's LIST.


Nrllfr'eali Scholars Killed and Wounded
IN the Philippines.
Nesslpston February % The war do.
passA'spf Hes resolved tha following casual.
y ~ from Geaoral AaeArlrr. al Manila: :
Nlllea |anaMfy ~ COMPANY G sixth
infqnirs g = Leonard; January ~ com.
nany 81 tfortieth h,fame,, Corporal VIII
ian; J, Kelly; February 10, company X
Y, Ilhirtfnlnsh infntry John Il. KIdaev:
feh~ary ~, company l. Nineteenth IN
fnntfy. Erwin Delllsch
WpuAaed i-J.hn i, Griffith. leg, ,lbove
knee. slight; H. j. schneider. knee, siis,bf.
hospital corps, John u o'Mallcy' ehest'
SERIOUS; February Is, troop Il, Third CIV
airy John J. Afford. ntser, ear aight;
; 2s.'.E schraeder arm slight; John I.
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EDWARDS VISIT 70 GERMANY.
King Declined to Be Guest of Empero
William.

William.
London. February King Edward left
for cfonberg at 9 o'clock this evening
Owing TO his desire to divert his visit Of
any official character, he declined em.
phaticaliy Emperor Williams invitation 10
stay at Homberg castle and win be his
SISTERS guest at the Fr1ederchshof Schloss.
The king Will arrive at Frankfort nj a.ns
O'clock Tomorrow morning, aud viii proceed
direef to Cronberg, where Emperor MIL
lhn will meet him.
London. February 2f,r-As the royal yacht
entered Flushing harbor with King ia,
ward VII crowd OF Usher boys ana girls
sang the Nolkslcld and other Boer hymns.
Taey were dispersed by the poucc,
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Brennond Items.

Bremond, Texas, February 24.-lhe
FAINT child of Judge j. p. Bailey died IN
morning at o'clock. Interment will tah
place in the city cemetery Monday mon
ing.
Bound by An Oath" was played at "
ADHESION opera bonse Friday night pN y.
local dramatic club to a large ana appt'I
c.atlye audience.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-25
DOMESTIC.

The threatened strike of Peunsyl-
vnnia coal miners can easily he pre-
vented by the operators
John II. Mitchell, dark horse was
elected senator from Oregon.
Mrs. Nation has tired of Jail ana has
written Judge Ifazcn TO "qult his fool.
Ing"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-25
Ice Broken Tor a Rantisn,.

Louisville, Ky, February a4-Nine re
cent converts Of the eolored Baptist church
OF Sew Albany, Ind. SIX. women and three
men, were baptized today In the Ohio river.
Before the immersion could take place the
Ice along the SHORE had TO be broken ana
pushed out OF the way.
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TRANsVAAl.

can not give Kitchener what he ac-
mands.
1t is said that Dcwct has been de-
featod by Plumer,
Kitchener reports that French is
driving the Beers in front of him,
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-02-25
TEXAS WILL HAVE NO PULL.
Action Of Conaressmen Destroyed the
States Influence.
(Snnclnl 10 Tho pnai

INVtVIHT 10 TIC TUHT1
Washington, February 24-Inside ihfor
nation Is to the effect that the Texas d,.
egatlon will have no influence in the nat
ter Of naming one OF the $4,000 commits
sioncrsh!ps for the St Louis exposition for
which Ex-Governor Tubbard's mime hus
been presented Opposition to Texas comes
from sources which Will probably have
commissioners shall be. Texas, II Is point.
ed out. Is the only State directly or indi-
rectly apart of the Louisiana purchase
five million dollar appropriation 10 he con.
trlbuted 10y the government and not one
of the members who yesterday submitted
Ex-Governor lIubhard's name voted for the
proposition In the house. But for this
the knowing ones say Texas would have
hcen in a position to mike strong claim
FOR one of the commissiopeIships and
would undoubtedly have landed II.
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No Agreement on the Revenue Bill.
Washington, February ~ The republl
can conferces on the war revenue reduction
bill, who We're In conference at the capt
fol today, say no final agreement hns been
reached, but TINT one appears to he alto.
gether probable.
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Always in the Front Rank.

Gonzales Inquirer.
The Houston Post has adopted doup,
lplumn editorials, fst or :. " mead iet' 81
(pe face and style. - Is quite ah 20
| ovement and looks well. The heus'q
| OFT always keeps in the front RANK
kfspaper enterprise.
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Petition in eankruntox.

Paris, Texas, February &c L. Boggs
of Paris filed petition In bankruptcy yes
terday afternoon. The unsecured clnlms
formerly engaged In business az Kaufman,
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CHINA.

The demands Of the powers have
practically been complied with save in
the paying Of the money indemnity,
tho amount of which has not been
fixed
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A Killino a ;seaIv.

sealy, Texas, February ai.-c. G. whit.
ley was shot and killed by Tom Watson
In the Hanls saloon this afternoon. Psr
ticulars unknown Watson Is constable
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SPORT.

special train win be run to Cal
weston tonight Tor the benefit Of sports
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10 cuRE a col o lM ONE nm

druggists refund the money n Ii feits a. a.
S curl /. W. Groves signature Is ON eaeS
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Send no money, but write NJ. Shoop Racine, Wis,
Boa 90, for six bottles OF ~. shoops Restorative,
express paid II eured pay ts.bo-if not, it As free
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81 10 Time Of Profound Peaoel

a cies Inquirer.
and NOV claimed that the president vi
l MI $1,000 additional troops. makin
,ylll l,v l5o,00o When this Is done n'|
TO AMI will be asked for. We need ~
way TO hold down this strehuo'I
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30

making money and living an indepen-
dent life about which they have heard
80 much. The New York Post in dis-
cussing the subject makes the follow
ing sensible suggestions:
"Having decided, after sufficient
practical inquiry into the subject, that
he would enjoy the occupation, let him
make prectical selection of his farm,
not going so far from home friends that
he might become homesick at the start,
and locating with view to the access
bility of the market to which he must
look for profit that he is to keep con-
stantly in view. While ii is not neces-
sary that he should hold pillow or do
other mammal work on his farm himself,
it is Necessary that he should possess
practical knowledge Of many farm pro-
cesses, and he will not farm for pleas
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
Business Advice to Formers.

If due attention is given to the bust
ness end of the farming in all its rela-
tons to the ultimate results, there can
never be time when farming will not
pay. If this most important phase of
the calling is not made the controlling
one, as it should be, it will be mere
chance whether farming pays or not.
Let us take as an illustration some OF
the features that come under this head;
say, first, the guarding against the de-
structive effects of too much rain, or
too much dry weather. Most farmers
think that the regulation of moisture in
the soil is thing to be controlled only
by Providence. The business farmer
does not think 80. He uses the proper
means to have his land thoroughly
drained so that excess OF rainfall will
do but little harm; and he keeps the
soil constantly stirred, 80 that the crops
suffer but little if there is drouth.
So that it is not Providence but the
man himself who regulates the success
of the crop, with little regard to the
weather,
He puts business into the maintain
ing of the fertility of the soil, by maxi
ing the most manure he can, and ex-
ercising all the needed care to preserve
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
Clean Milk and Butter.

The first essential to securing clean
and healthful milk is a clean and
healthful COW. 1t is next to impossi-
BILE to secure clean and pure milk from
a dirty cow, it is impossiblet to get
healthful milk from an unhealthful
COW. Given clean and healthy
cow, she must be provided with a
sufficient quantity of clean, healthful
and nutritious food and water. This is
the second essential. The third essen
tial is that the person who does the
milking and the place where the milk
ing is done shall also be clean and
healthful. A dirty mixer, one with
dirty hands, cannot do clean milking.
No person who is suffering from or
who attends upon others suffering
from any contagious disease can milk
without communicating the milk. Scar
let fever, measles and diphtheria are
especially liable to transmission by a
mixer.
The fourth essential is keeping the
milk clean until it is to be used. Much
more milk is damaged before it gets
out of the cowhouse than after; never
theless eternal vigilance is necessary
from the milk pail to the butter plate.
Wash, rinse, scald, scour and sun all
the milk vessels is the only program
that assures success.
Clean and pure butter can only come
from clean and pure milk. Once filth
Of any kind gets into milk, it's essence
stays there. Straining, aeration, sep
aration, each does something, and all
may do much toward cleaning milk
but the only safe or satisfactory way is
never to let it get in. Purity is indeed
cleanliness and cleanliness is health. -
N. B. Franklin in Jersey Bulletin.
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OATs.-There is a quiet tone in the mar
ket but the supply on hand Is moderate and
prices show q slight advance for the week.
At the close the best barley clipped white
oats are quoted at "a to 35lc, with No. 2
clipped white at 334 to 34c, and lower grades
down as to quality.
Gs.-Receipts have been moderate for
the past week. The market took an upward
turn Immediately following our last weekly
report, fancy Ind, ETC., advancing to 22c
with some holding at 23c, but the advance
in prices checked the demand good deal,
and on Monday the market turned in buy
ers' favor again, and has been gradually
declining since then. At the close fancy
Indiana are steady at zoe, with other choice
western selling at 19Ic to zoe. Fresh south
ern slow at IS to 19c. Refrigerstors quiet.
HAY AND SrRAw,-There is a slow de-
mand noted for hay, and under liberal re-
ceipts the tone ia weaker. Arrivals include
Sc cars for export and 324 cars for local use.
Choice hay IL mostly selling at S18 to Is 80,
with some fanoy higher while lower grades
yet range at S14 to II. 80, but values more IA
vor the buyer as a whole. The lower grades
show most weakness. Rye straw Is quiet
but the market holds steady, with choice
cars at S16.50 to IS 90. Tangled rye straw is
quiet with oat straw dull
CoRN.-The market continues dull and
the tone is easy spot lots hardly command
ing the cost TO ship from the west AT the
close No. 2 yellow on track is selling at 46t
TO 45lc, with steamer yellow at 46c. Lower
grades are dull and slow of sale, with the
range down az TO quality.
BEANs--Receipts have been fairly liberal
this week for the season OF the year, demand
has been light and prices have eased OIL q
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
AGRICULTURAL.
Oriental Dairy Trade.

The United States consul at Chung
King writes to the United States au-
tborties:
1.-THE demand for good butter in the
Philippines, in Japan and along the
entire coast of China is increasing very
fast and is bound TO assume immense
proportions; and with the ability of the
Pacific coast to produce excellent but
ter at reasonable cost and under favor
able conditions, it only remains for the
creameries and dealers to master the
proper method of packing and handling
to secure this trade. With this grow
ing market, more convenient to our Pa
cific coast than to any other butter pro-
ducing country, with the many lines of
steamers coming here from that coast,
it seems a matter of importance to our
western states to secure this trade.
l would also call attention to the in
creasing importation of condensed
milk and cream at this port. During
last year, there was imported here from
various countries $4,000 worth of
canned milk and cream. can see no
reason why our western states should
not secure large part of this trade
also. In 1897 the importation amount
ed to 1874 $50; in 1899, to S54,75O.
There has no doubt been an equally
great increase at other ports of the
Orient.
The most difficult problem in secur-
ing and holding the Oriental market
for pure dairy products is the compe-
tition Of various forms of so-called but
ter The manufacturers of these spu-
rious articles are free to make all man
ner of deliberations and put them on
the market labelled pure dairy butter.
l attribute the low price of butter here
now to this competition, and firmly
believe from my own experience that
the greater proportion of butter sold is
q spurious product, although it is hand
somely put up and branded as pure
dairy butter. None of the large deal
ers have the product sold as butter
tested by a chemist, and they are not
certain of its purity.
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CARROLL S. PAGE, Hyde Park, VI.

ure' if he does not. No scientific
farm-manager,' at salary larger than
the owner could earn in a counting
room, is to be contemplated. The
owner may, and probably should, have
a tenant, practical farmer in the field,
with whom he will establish some kind
of profiI-sharing arrangement; but he
himself should be the general who does
the larger planning of the annual cam
paign.
"rhe average farmer east of the AL
leghanies, The man who works the
farm HE father did, or at least follows
the calling of his ancestors, is rarely in
any sense student OF his business.
We could name county in state
near New York, in which milk pro-
duction is sthe almost universal farm
industry, but in which, nevertheless, 30
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in ii all the fertilization value. This is
one of the most important matters to
consider on the farm and it is one of
the things about which there is the
most general disregard. To the bust
ness man this is nothing in the world
but simply throwing away capital; to
the average farmer-well, he does not
think of it at all. He cleans out his
stable or barn and throws the manure
out into the weather, as a matter of
course, and paws no more attention to
it. All the strength is washed out of
it and when it is at last applied to the
land he thinks that manuring land is
hardly worth the trouble and labor at
all.
When he ships any produce to mar
ket, say apples, butter, poultry, ETC., be
never considers for moment the ne
cessity for having the articles presented
10 attractive form or good quality, but
if he thinks about it at all, thinks that
what is good enough for him is good
enough for anybody else. AS result
he gets the lowest price for bis produce
and is convinced that it does not pay
to ship anything away from home. If
he would put come business into his
methods he would reflect that even in
his own case, when he buys anything,
he wants the best he can get for his
money, and that everybody else is the
same way. So in shipping ten barrels
of apples, some small, some knotty,
some large and good, if they are all
mixed, the price will be fixed by the
inferior ones, and they will probably
bring $3.50 barrel all round. Where
as, If they are carefully assorted, no
doubt five barrels of the best would
bring $3.50 or SO barrel, and the
others $l.50, making a gain of 81 so on
the lot.-Journal OF Agriculture.
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800 Reward 800

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh, being a
constitutional disease, requires con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of
the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the
constitution and assisting nature in do
ing its work, The proprietors have 30
much faith in its curative powers, that
they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address,
F. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
SSold by Druggists, seventy-fve
cents.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
Live Stock Market.

The receipts OF live stock at Brighton for
the week ending January 16 aggregated
1855 cattle, 305 sheep and lambs, 81 9S6
hogs, 391 veal calves and 100 horses.
Tuesdays market for beef cattle was
fairly satisfactory, in 80 far as the demand
for and the prices Of good beef COWS ana
bulls were concerned, but values Of oxen
and steers were inclined to be easy. The
following were among for sales: oxen,
1850 lbs, 6hc; 2 oxen, 3400 lbs the pair 5sc;
10 COWS, average $50 lbs, 2Ac; 4 cows, $500
lbs, &c; 2 bulls, 1900 lbs, 4c; COW, 1880 lbs,
SIC; oxen, 1900 lbs, BIC; bull, 500 lbs, Sc:
heifers, 800 lbs, SIC.
There was not very large supply OF
mich COWS on the market, but it was suffi.
cient for the demand, which rules quiet
Notwithstanding the presence OF buyers
from Maine. Sales: very fancy cow, $50;
do. at $50 each l at $40; l at S2S; 2 cows
at $50 EACH at S42; at $40 each; at $40
to %.
Store pigs were in moderate supplyiand
light demand. Small pigs sold at $3.50 to
$3.50.
Veal calves were fairly active and firm.
In few instances &C. was reached for
choice.
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fundamental requisite to economical
milk production as a silo is q curiosity.
We could name district similarly sit
uated (which has been farmed for gen.
erations, but in which the drying of
a wet field iby buying little earthen
drains was never heard of until a stu
dent farmer, of the class we are dis
cussing, gave his neighbors an example
of the process. When piece Of this
work was,inished, and had done what
il was expected to do, a venerable
neighbor, who had known the field as
a marsh from his boyhood, paid the
innovator the compliment of declaring:
Il wouldn't have believed it if l had
not seen it, We could name an in
stance in which the same STUDENT
farmer, by insisting on sowing field
with a seed better than the old estab-
lished clover and timothy, produced
from that single field in one year more
hay than the whole farm produced the
year before.
"How this amount of practical
knowledge shall be acquired is for each
student to determine. The agricult-
ural college, the really model farm,
home study-all these are helpful.
The foundation knowledge is within
any ones reach. That acquired, the
measure of success must rest with the
individual Farm work is dependent
entirely on experiment. Farmers
know lwhat crops will grow in their
latitude, and how best to grow them,
either from their own experiments or
from those of men who have long
grown them. Therein is the field in
which superior intelligence has its adj
vantage"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
A Well Balanced Winter Ration

In order 10 be satisfactory ration
for both the stock and the farmer, it
must consist of articles which can be
had reasonably cheap and which sup
ply the maximum of nutriment. One
might very easily select foods that the
average farmer would not be likelv To
have, and recommend them for part of
well balanced ration, but it would
hardly prove of any particular value
In making the winter food programme
up it is necessary to consider all the
time the relative supply and cost of the
different articles. Variety of food is
essential in every we'll balanced ration,
and variety is no more expensive than
one or two kinds of food. We can often
mix several grains and produce better
results than by feeding one. In this
way the cheaper grains produce their
best results. Now, oats form one of
the best grains for most farm animals.
but it will not pay any farmer to raise
oats exclusively for the winter diet Of
horses, cattle, sheep or pigs. Every
farm animal needs besides oats some
corn, barley, bran and roots, as we'll as
coarse hay and corn fodder. By mix
ing these in varying proportions one
can make the total results much cheap
or and farlmore effective than by feed
ing oats or corn exclusively.
We cannot emphasize too much the
need of this variety in the food. Even
the horses which are the greatest oat
eating animals we have will do better
for variety. The mich COWS wonld
simply do little or nothing if fed almost
exclusively on oats, They require corn
fully as much as the horses need oats,
but give the cow.corn alone and she will
fatten up and lose her milk supply, bone
and muscle. Indeed, there is no
single water food that will answer the
purpose for any of our farm cattle. All
animals like changes, and such change
can constantly be made by mixing the
different foods in various ways. Some
times they need to be mixed and fed
warm, and again dry food will an
swer. Along with all such rations,
however, there should go enough sue
culent food to make the mass easily di-
gested. The roots, ensilage and green
stuff help to keep the system in good
condition, and they should be fed in
some form throughout the whole win
ter. 1t is not necessary to enter into
any scientific explanation Of the needs
and objects of feeding variety of foods
to the farm animals in winter, for
every one with fair intelligence can
understand the benefits of the system.
1t is not necessary to explain the rea-
son why we require variety of food.
We know that our system seems to
crave variety, and the animals have
the same longings for it, and it is our
duty and privilege to supply twill.
lam Conway, in Massachusetts Plough.
rnap
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
He Has Not Had a Sick Day

since he was cured of liver and kidney trou-
BILE and painters collie, by the ne,o medicine
named Calcura Solvent. The man is Mr..
Christopher Larsen OF Rondout, N. Y. 1t
drove the disease out Of his system, he says,
30 it never came back. Nothing like Calcu.
ra Solvent to purify the blood. For free trial
bottle write to DR.. David Kennedy, Ken
nedy Row, Kingston, N. Y.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
Success in Farming.

Success upon the farm depends
largely upon the love which person
has for his calling. Love of one call
ing 10 prime requisite of success in
any business, Many people from cities
are purchasing farms with the idea Of
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
EGGS AT so CENYS A DOZEN.

When eggs retail at 40 cents dozen it is
a good time for the poultrymen to have lay
ing hens. Ordinary food in cold weather
is insufficient to support the requirements
of the laying hen. A great want in this di
rection has been filed by the production of
Pages Perfect Poultry Food. This is the
first article of this kind which is absolutely
successful. 1t does everything they claim
for it, and is extremely reasonable in price.
Send your name on postal card to g. S.
Page, Hyde Park, Vt, and get circular.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30

THIS is WHAT THEY sAY.-Those
who take Hoods Sarsaparilla for scrof-
ula, eczema, eruptions, catarrh, rheu-
matism or dyspepsia, say it cures
promptly and permanently, even after
all other preparations fail. You may
take this medicine with the utmost
confidence that it will do you good.
What it has done for others you have
every reason to believe it will do for
you.
Constipation is cured by Hoods Pills.
% cents.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-01-30
WEEKLY MARKET REPORT.
Boston Produce Market.

KH-The quotations given below represent price.
obtained Dy receivers pAossaie ofs mot ioobing
pricesj dnless otherwise ndicasea are intended
to represent actual "a les.