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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

throughout the middle west, the pro.
duction would yet be inadequate to
meet the requirements of the country,
and planters could still hope for lib
eral profits. " From every reason
able point of view it appears that
great profits are to be- made in the
growing of forest trees in the next
twenty-five years. Every condition is
so favorable that the matter Tasses
from probability to certainty" From
the same source we learn that past
planting has already showed that the
growing of timber is profitable en-
terprise. That a ten year old Catalpa
plantation in Kansas showed a net
value OF Sl97 80 per acre and twenty
five year old plantation of Red Juni.
per (red CEDAR in Iowa, showed net
value Of $500. 81 per acre. Returns
from agricultural crops show no great.
er value for such periods Of years.
There Is abundant evidence that the
growing of timber for the higher
markets OF the future will prove to
be good paying business There are
no foreign sources which are adequate
to the supply of soft wood lumber.
The writer has visited timber sections
in several States of the Union, and
everywhere heard reports like the fol-
owing; cold growth timber nearly
gone, smaller and inferior quality
only to be found and that getting
scarce " Saw mills running night
and day and will soon exhaust the
supply Prices for standing timber
rising rapidly" Similar reports come
from lumber districts of New Eng
land, New York. the entire northern
belt, the great middle west, includ-
ing the Mississippi valley, the South
Atlantic and Gulf states and the
slopes of the Pacific coast. This
shows that the hitherto extensive for
ests have already been mined of about
all of their natural wealth and that
one of the greatest industries of the
nation will soon be ended unless pro-
vision is made for its continuance by
planting, cultivation and reproduction
of forests.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
WEALTH.FROM THE FORESTS.

The Vermont supply of good mer-
charitable lumber to the trade is
about exhausted. The cut-over lands
on mountain, hill or valley show that
the timber crop throughout the State
is nearly harvested. They also show
that the desultory manner of cutting
has been made without regard to a
provision for future crop, for young
trees and seedlings have either been
cut, broken down or wounded to such
an extent that almost nothing has
been left to protect the soil, or to
serve as a basis for renewal
Much of the natural wealth of the
farmers real estate has been parted
with by the cutting or sale of the tim
Der lots, and study into the changed
conditions of many farms from what
they were thirty years ago reveals
other causes for their lessered produc-
tiveness and decline in values. Then,
almost every farm had on it a good
sized wood lot from which thousands of
feet of ripe timber could be yearly fell
ed without materially diminishing the
stand. On these lots were springs
and rivulets that supplied the farm
with water, nourished the pastures,
and maintained the moisture neces-
sary for vegetation. The branching
foliage of the trees lessened evapora-
tion and their roots served to make
innumera ole tiny reservoirs to hold
back flood water till needed in dry
seasons. Today these wood lots are
marked chiefly by rotting debris and
their charred or barren wastes are lit
tie better than arid deserts many of
their springs and rivulets are about
dried up and the farm fields do not so
long present the beautiful green as
they were wont. The grass and hay
crops almost yearly suffer from
drought, and other crops are less
bountiful, making agricultural pur-
suits more difficult and tillage land
less valuable. Noticeable also are
changed climatic C, nditions which
tend to more frequent hurricanes,
worse freshets, prolonged periods of
drought and more sudden variations
of temperature.
Thus from natural causes the depre-
citation of farm values becomes appar-
ent. However, while the value of
cleared land has declined, that of tim
bered land has been on the rise, and
today a farm we'll balanced as to
clearings and woods is acturally worth
more money than ever before. The
farmer who now possesses fifty acres
of well timbered land convenient to
mill and depot possesses a mine of
wealth, for by protecting and prun-
ing young and thrifty trees, he could
take from this land 90, 600 feet of lum-
Der, annually, at a net yearly income
of 800 or $500.
Unfortunately many farmers and
| timber land owners have not had a
sufficiently high appreciation of their
holdings and, not realizing the pres.
ent or prospective worth, have parted
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
A RATIONAL VIEW.

ARENAS Ward once remarked that
it would have been worth ten dollars
to Judas Iscariot if he had never been
born or words to that effect 1t
might have been worth more than ten
dollars to Josiah Circuit if he had
never been Governor of Vermont, and
also a considerable sum if, having
sunk in Lethe's waters after the I'M
fortunate incidents of his nomination
and administration, his friends had
put lead enough in his boots to keep
him beneath the floods. Since his re-
cent momentary temperance above
the waves, his ghost is probably re-
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

army can thus slightingly answer a
bureaucrat at Washington? Possibly
the bureau chief suspicioned that the
commodore was buying the coal for
his own private use in that frigid
climate, and it was entirely proper to
make the inquiry which Dewey so
frivolously answered. The chief of
the bureau of equipment was simply
displaying commendable zeal in the
performance of his duty. For much
less grievous offense Admiral Schley
has been passed through an interrog-
atory threshing machine, run by
naval bureau chief, and Lieut.. Gen.
Miles has been roasted before the
fires of the war department, Civilian
Root turning the spit. Why has
Dewey, for the otfense recounted
above, and why Roosevelt for sign
ing the "round robin" Matched at
Santiago, and for letter to Secretary
Alger bristling with characterization
why were these officers, in each arm
of the service, allowed to go scot free,
while Schley and Miles have been
strung up by their thumbs for venial
offenses? "To burn - That such
evasion should pass without repri-
mand, or encountering Maclay's gat-
ling gun-fre of epithetsl
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
COAL TO BURN.

The Philadelphia Saturday Even.
ing Post says that while Admiral
Dewey was commanding the Asiatic
station his squadron was in need of
coal, but instead of writing to the
Chief of the Bureau of Equipment,
he purchased large amount of coal
without consulting the department.
The following correspondence there
upon took place between the Admiral
and Captain Bradford the Chief of
the Bureau of Equipment
Navy Department, Washington, d. @.
To Dewey, Manila;
Why did you buy so much coal?
Bradford,
Flagship Olympia, Manila.
To Bradford, Chief Bureau Equip
ment, Washington;
To burn.
Dewey.
Why was not this impudent and in
subordinate Commodore Dewey i'm
mediately called home and punished
What is to become of military disci-
pine if an officer of the navy or
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
Wants to Help Others.

Il had stomach trouble all my life, says
Edw. Melcher, proprietor of the Union
Bottling Works, Erie, Penn land tried
all kinds of remedies, went to several doe
tors and spent considerable money trying
to get a moments peace. Finally | read
of Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and have been
taking il to my great satisfaction, never
found its equal for stomach trouble and
gladly recommend it in hope that | may
help other sufferers" Kodol Dyspepsia
Cure cures all stomach troubles You
don't have to diet. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure
digests what you eat. Sold by George
McGrath and G. BlakleY.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
VERMONT JOURNAL WEDNESDAY APRIL 49, 1902

it breeds hypocrisy, perjury and ly.
ing, evils even greater than intern
perance itself. Liquors are sold by
the towns and we are all made par
ties to the transactions, but there is
little or no profit to the town or State.
The law is drastic in all its provi-
sions, and rotten in it's execution,
and as a knowledge of its workings
spreads, a feeling of disgust comes
over every man who cares for the
honor of our State. ..
| stand with any man for law, or
der, and good government. | am
against any law which relies for its
enforcement not upon healthy pub.
lie sentiment, but upon the large
fines and fees which public officers
are able to extort from their vic
Tins, and put TO the credit of their
own bank accounts, and which are
commonly used for the purpose of
blackmail.
We license advocates believe in
law which will permit the sale of in
toXicating liquors, when town so
orders it, under regulations, which,
from experience, we know do in 9th
er States reduce the evils of intern
perance to minimum and return i'm
mense revenue to the towns
Such law has been drawn and pre-
sented to the Legislature many times
within the past few years, but the
political machine which controls the
destinies of Vermont legislation and
Vermont politicians has every time
put distractions in the way of the
passage of such an act and would not
even permit it to be presented to the
people of the State for their approval
or rejection, lest in the change of SEN
timent which must inevitably take
place were such measure presented
to every voter in the State for his
consideration, it would lose the reins
of government
For forty years Vermont has stood
for the principles of the Republican
party in national affairs, and in that
no one glories more than l, but in
state affairs we have had no politics.
a few men have controlled official
positions and legislation and have
traded out the various offices from
Governor down, year after year, say
ing: You support me this time and
1 will support you next" and upon
that platform they have gone through
the State with their strikers, hat in
hand, begging votes.
l believe that the time has come
when the people of this State are
to take hold and assume their
proper place in the government. 1
believe that the affairs of the State
should be run on business basis. If
will stand for high IL
cense and local option and real re-
trenchment in state expenses and hon.
esty in the administration of state
affairs. will use my best efforts to
win out for the cause and work for
the repeal of the prohibitory law and
the enactment of real temperance
legislation in it's place, and for the
honest and faithful administration of
public affairs.
Thanking you for the interest you
have shown in the matter, remain,
Yours very sincerely,
Perciyal w. Clement.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

How strange!'' remarked a wo-
man over her newspaper last week ;
- here's bank director objecting to
a bank clerk who drinks beer, the
bank director being himself saloon
keeper New York Sun.
How strange ! Here's a railway
president requiring his employees to
sign an iron-clad agreement not to
drink Intoxicating liquor of any kind
while in the employ of the road, the
president being himself in favor of let
ting the people of the State drink ac-
cording to their appetites. And this
railway president, who is prohibit
Zionist LATTER the most straitest
sect'', in respect of his hired men, is a
candidate for the governorship of the
State on platform which would open
rumshops all along the line of his road
and score, more or less, at the rail
ways headquarters. In practical bust
ness affairs he is stringent prohib-
itionist in politics, for system of
regulating the liquor traffic that would
permit, practically, tho free and I'M
restricted sale of liquors. His business
Judgment in this respect is better
guide than his political creed.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

a receiv ing ship at a dock in the
Brooklyn navy yard, the Waterman
and Journal made strong appeal to
the States delegation in Congress to
make an effort to secure the naming
for Vermont of one of the battleships
the government is building. In view
of the services the State has rendered
the nation it would seem that the
home of Dewey and Clark was en-
titled to the honor and distinction
sought. 1t does not appear that Yer
mont at Washington has done any
thing in the direction suggested
And now comes Erwin A. Pratt MAX
ing a similar appeal through the
World newspaper of New York. Sub
joined is the essential part of Mr..
Pratts letter:
"There lies at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard an old ship named the Vermont,
which has been or will soon be, sold
for junk. There is no special history
in the early part of the last century
Il
war, and is an old water logged affair
with little or no sentiment attached
to it except as to the name.
The United States government is
building several large battleships
which have not yet been named. What
better name could one of them have
than 1.-THE Vermont: If all Yer
monters will do their duty we shall
soon have a battleship Vermont.
In the first place let every Vermont
er in the United States that loves the
place of his birth write to his con-
gresham or to a Senator of the State
in which he now lives to use his per-
sonal influence and every honorable
means at Washington to have one of
the new battleships named "Ver-
mont. -
Let every newspaper in Vermont
print this appeal and every resident
of the State take the matter up and
write personal letter to his con-
gresham or a Senator from that
State or to Charles H. Darling, assist
ant secretary of the navy.
In the official family of President
Roosevelt there are two Vermonters-
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw and
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Oar
ling also there are several congress-
men and Senators from other States
who were born in Vermont and will
lend their influence in the matter if
asked to do so.
Vermonters get together and don't
stop working till the battleship Yer
mont, -. is launched AS a reader of
The World personally appeal to you
to publish this letter and put your en-
dorsement on it and every Vermonter
in this broad land will thank you.
Then make Capt. Charles E. Clark
rear admiral and make the Yer
mont his flag ship"
To all of which the Waterman and
Journal says, Amen - moving how
ever, to strike out of the last para
graph the words "rear admiral and
insert in their place ''vice admiral. :"
Rear" is particularly inappropriate
and unacceptable in the title of the
officer who rushed the Oregon round
the stormy cape, arrived ahead of
time in the West Indies, was nearest
the enemy at Santiago de Cuba and
the dominating agent in the complete
destruction of Cervera's squadron. So
there ought to be a battleship named
| Vermont and Vice Admiral Charles
e. Clark. 1t is up to the Vermont
delegation to be moving for these dis
tinctions-and to GET THERE. Catch
the pace set by Dewey and Clark at
| Manila ond q 4 SANTIAGO
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
The Great Dismal Swamp

OF Virginia is a breeding ground of Ma
laria germs So is low, wet or marshy
ground everywhere. These germs cause
bones and muscles, and may induce dam
gerous maladies. But Electric Btters
never fail to destroy them and cure ma
larial troubles. They will surely prevent
typhoid I'VE tried many remedies for
Malaria and Stomach and Liver troubles"
writes John Charleston, of Byesville, o.,
but never found anything as good as
Electric Bitters " Try them. Only soc.
At C. Blakely. Guarantee satisfaction.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

Gubernatorial is another over
worked term in the pending canvass
for the nomination by the Republican
party of candidate for Gubernator
of Vermont, All good citizens are
hoping that the man will be nominated
who, if elected, will best gubernate
the State. But govern ought to
be a good enough word for "the
plain, Woodworking people of YER
mont. l." Governor" is a we'll bred
term, properly used as an adjective
on occasion, is not so stilted and does
not smack of illegitimacy of deriva-
ton or application as does it's high
sounding usurper, gubernatorial. {"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

Joseph A DeBoer, vicepresident and
actuary of the Natioal Life Insurance
company of Montpelier, VT, has been
made president to succeed James g.
Houghton, who died last month.
This company is large and growing
one, and claims attention for the low
cost of it's management and the fact
that in the year just past, when it
dropped from to per cent inter
est assumption in the calculation of
rates and values, it wrote the largest
amount of insurance in in its history.
Mr.. DeBoer is native of Holland,
and was educated at Albany, N Y,
and at Dartmouth college, where he
graduated i'll 1884. He is a member
OF the persent Vermont state Senate.
Springfield Republican.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
THE VERMONT.

Somewhat more than year ago, at
the time of the condemnation Of the
Vermont, relic Of Ahe old wooden
navy, which had longt been moored as
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
WORTH OF STANDING TIMBER.

Careful and conservative estimates
show an average valuation in the tree
of from 80 to $l2 per thousand feet,
board measure, for good merchantable
lumber, such as comes from Vermont
forests. These estimates are based OH
prices governing sales today, and
on costs of cutting, milling and trans
portation which varies according to
location. Farmers are now paying
Sl7 per thousand for inferior qualities
of lumber at the mills, the cost of
which to cut, haul and mill does not
exceed So, thus making the board val
nc of the lumber on the stump $12 per
thousand feet
We have been informed that S13 per
thousand feet has been offered for
logs as they usually run in skid piles,
delivered along the line of railroads
which would give their value stand
ing at about $40 per thousand feet.
For clear butt logs of old growth
spruce suitable for sounding boards
to musical instruments the price is
said to be S22 per thousand feet, show
ing the same to be worth in the tree
about S1S board measure.
For prices obtained at market cen
ters outside of the State, the writer
estimates the average of hard and soft
Vermont lumber at about $50 per
thousand feet, sawed and delivered.
Deducting cost Of laying down the
lumber in these markets at So there
would be left margin of $l2 per
thousand feet to represent the value
of the timber before cutting.
Tree values are increasing in pro-
portion to the growing scarcity of
lumber and the rapid advance in
prices.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

Cecil Rhodes evidently believed it is
we'll for England that Americans
should study at Oxford. If the printed
copy of his will is accurate he has
provided for two scholarships in that
institution for every American State
and Territory. These, with the Colo
NAL an German scholarships also pro-
vided for, are established because "a
good understanding among England,
Germany and the United States will
secure the peace of the world, and ed
ucational relations form the strongest
tie" One hundred American students
would make conspicuous colony at
Oxford, and the idea is both original
and singular. Awarding two scholar
ships each for our fifty States and
Territories will be expensive and COM
plicated, but ample funds are left for
that purpose.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

once to begin
the use of DR..
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discov-
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entirely eradi-
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W h ic II corrupt
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ecz m a, salt
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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
THE DEMAND.

The quantity of lumber required
for yearly consumption is increasing
while the supply is decreasing the
amount used for building purposes,
furniture, cars, implements, vehicles,
ETC., is immense. The demand for
suitable timber for posts is now great
and must continue to increase, and
prices will go higher, though in some
sections they have trebled during the
past few years. The days of fence
building by the use of rails are nearly
over, and fences requiring posts are
about the only kind now being built.
The demand for poles for use by the
telegraph, telephone and electric car
lines and light systems is on the in
crease. The life of these poles in the
ground is said to be only about ten
years, and it is estimated that for the
annual renewal more than / 200, 600
are used at cost of -, 900, 600. In
addition to these the new lines and
systems yearly in process of construc
ton require enormous quantities.
The price of these poles, now high,
will continue to advance because of
the scarcity of timber that fulfills the
conditions required of them.
The railroads are very large con-
sumers of timber adapted to their
needs. 1t is said that $50, 600, 600
cross-ties are in use in the railroads
of the country, and that 80, 900, 900 are
required annually for renewals, tax
ing the timber from an estimated area
of two hundred thousand acres. Many
millions of feet of lumber are now
being used by street car and suburban
lines. Railroad officials realize that
tie lumber is becoming scarce and as
sert that prices are rising rapidly. A
general manager on one of the west
ern railroads has estimated the value
of cross tie at seventy-five cents in
less than fifteen years. 1t is likely
that the price for posts and poles.
mentioned, will increase more rap
idly.
PROFIT IN TIMBER GROWING.
The time has now come for farmers
to give attention to forest cultivation
and to raise up new crop of timber
on the ground so prematurely and
carelessly cut over. In order to do
this planting should be begun and the
thinning and pruning of such seed
lings as may be standing.
AS a business venture one naturally
wishes to know if it will pay. / will
quote from an article ON forest extern
sion in the middle west published in
the Year Book of the United States
Department of Agriculture for 1900,
which says: eff 500, 900 acres of
timber should be planted annually,
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16

cDr. Pierce's medicine has not only bene-
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with them at tremendous sacrifice.
The newspapers could confer no
greater blessing on these people than
to aid them to acquire an adequate
conception of the value of the forest
trees and the purposes they serve.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-04-16
IFS Impure Blood.

oWhat Is it1" asks the mother as she
notices the smooth skin of her child
marred by red or pimply eruption. 1t
is impure blood, and the child needs at