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The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

soft chickens are scarce and wanted.
M ost western are hard and shaggy and
bring no more than fowls Western fowls
have been coming freely and are lower,
closing dull at II to re. Choice large
capons teep well sold up. But few choice
ducks or geese Offering. S.s4
FLoUR.-The market for -four continues
quiet with business yet of a hand-to
mouth character. Prices for flour are
governed largely by the cost of wheat.
and an advance or decline does not
appear to start any better demand. The
trade is taking flour from time to time
as it is needed, but this is the extent of
the business doing Spring patents are
slow of sale. Some Chicago and Wscon-
sin brands can be bought at $3.50 TO 4.
while Minnesota patents range at about
81 to 10. Some special brands are held
above the latter figure, but this will cover
bulk of sales made. Winter patents show
an easier tone, but yet range much above
the cost of spring. Choice Ohio winter
patents are quoted at "a % to 40. with
Michigan at S42O to 4.35, and New York at
SAB to 4.25 For clear and straight win
tiers the range is about $3.50 to 4.25. will
cover the range for Ohio fours, with New
York at 80 10 to 40, as to quality.
CoRN.-The market has worked lower
during this week but a frmer tone is not
ed at the close Receipts are light, while
the demand is ouly to meet hand-to
mouth needs. At the close the market
for No. ) yellow and steamed yellow on
track is about 69c with lower grades
ranging down as to quality aud color
HAY AND STRAW The market shows a
stronger tone for choice hay. but lower
grades are yet dun aud selling slowly.
Receipts have been large but the larger
part does not effect the local market.
OF the weeks arrivals 31S cars were for
export and lis cars were for local use.
Best grades of hay arr IN mD derate sup
ply and are selling at Sl7 to 80 while
lower grades range down as to quality
Rye straw Is quiet but the market is
steady, with choice cars at SlO to 16 30.
Dat straw dull.
CHEESE Receipts for export, 1856
boxes. There has been a steady fair de-
mand for past week, and with moderate
stocks on hand the market has been ruiz
ing firm and closes fraction higher than
last week Most lots of strictly fine north
cru fall twins are now held at 12c OF better.
Fair to good stock steady at 10 to lie.
BUTTER.-Receipts have been light again
this week and include ~, 600 lbs for export.
There has been very light trade for the
past week, and 5 nee Tuesday, under the
weaker advices from other markets, the
feeling has been unsettled and there has
been a disposition to work prices down
little. Late sales of fine fresh creamery
have been hard hard to make at over
% to 20 1-2c, and at the close 2Sc is the
general price, with firsts in limited de-
mand at &c to &c Extra box and print
butter is hard to sell at anything over 2Sc.
June goods have been i'll steady fair de-
mand and best grades are still bringing
% to Ac.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
INTERESTING STATISTICS

The table given below is interesting
for comparison. 1t shows in the first
column of figures the appropriations
made by the city council for the DIFF
ferent city departments for the year
1901. The second column is the net
amounts expended by the several de-
partments gained by deducting the re-
ceipts from the total amount expend-
cd in a department. The third column
gives the estimated amounts which
the city council believe will be re-
quired by the departments the coming
year.
There are of course several fixed
charges like State taxes, lighting,
printing, band, hospital, etc The
school building department drops out
this year but its place is taken by an
appropriation of $4,000 for a tenn
porary loan department, which does
not appear in the table below.
The estimated expenses for 1902 as
made by the present city council
amount to 1874, 1856 81 as against $50, T.
$50. 16, the estimated receipts, leaving
a balance of S113, 797. 81 to be provided
for by taxation or other sources.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
JUNIOR PRIZE SPEAKING.

The Junior prize speaking in Sem
mary chapel on Friday evening at
tracted good sized audience notwith-
standing the inclement weather. The
contest was unusually close and mer-
itorious and although the speakers
were mostly new to the business they
acquitted themselves most creditably
The Judges were Rev. @. o. Jud-
kins, Rev. l.. +, Reed and Burton +.
Bailey. They awarded the first prize
for gentlemen to Charles A. Wing
His selection, Anthony's Address
to the Romans " although old was
handled in mastery manner. The
second prize for gentlemen, was
given to John @. Prince. The contest
was exceedingly close between Mr.
Prince and two other gentlemen but
the scale tipped i'll his favor.
Miss Delta A. Collins won first prize
for ladies by the unanimous opinion
of the judges and the second went to
Miss Carrie A. Lewis. The easy stage
presence, clear enunciation and sim
plicity of Miss Lewis gave an added
charm to her selections. While the
Judges were out the dialogue Elsie's
Burglar" was given by Burns Osgood
and Miss Clara Smith, and Little
Lord Fauntleroy" by Richard ellison
as the uncle and Edward Sherburne
as the "Little Lord. Both were
finely rendered.
Miss Mabel Stewart, who refused
to compete for prize because she
had won in a previous contest enter
tanned the audience with happy Sc
lection while the judges were out.
Miss A. Jennie Palmer, instructor in
elocution, presented Miss Stewart
with copy of Jean Ingelow's poems.
Miss Palmer also gave Miss Harriet
e. Celley Melvin r, Fox, and Vernon
w. Davis the three contestants who
who failed to receive prizes, copy
of Hawthorne works.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
SILAGE FOR SUMMER.

The silo is ordinarily regarded as
means of preserving green crops in
succulent condition for winter feeding,
corn being the crop commonly used to
make the silage.
A season like that of 1901, however,
brings prominently into notice the dry
summer season and thereby escaping
the injurious effects of drouth in the
dairy. The condition of pastures dur
ing last summer caused great loss to
dairymen not simply in the reduced
yield for the time, but also because
the effects of such a reduction are
difficult to get over and almost impos-
sible to cure until the COW comes in
fresh again. A milk yield that goes
down because of insufficient or i'm
proper feeding can hardly ever be re-
stored during that period of lactation.
The effect attending such reduced
flow are so important therefore that
it stands every dairyman in hand to
avoid the reduction if possible. In
dry summer this is possible in two
ways. One is by growing soiling
crops, though in dry season it is
difficult to get sufficient growth to
make soiling crops reliable resource.
The other is by putting up enough
silage from the previous crop to carry,
the herd through the summer or at
least to partially carry it through
This is the most reliable means be-
cause there is rarely time a field of
corn will not yield an abundance of
material to fill the silo, even though
it may grow but little grain, whereas
in the case of soiling crops if the sea-
son is so dry as to prevent the grass
growing it is also likely to be so dry
as to prevent the termination and
growth of soiling crops when planted
We would suggest, therefore, to the
dairy reader the expediency of pro-
viding silage for summer use as well
as for winter. To those who already
use the silo it means little larger
provision of silage than is necessary
for the winter supply. Those who
are not ensiling now, will of course,
have to start from the ground up, and
provide all the requisites for doing
the work. 1t will, however, be found
to pay for there is no cheaper and no
better food for the dairy COW, all
things considered, than the silo af-
fords. Live Stock
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
LIVE STOCK.

The receipts of live stock from all
points at the different local stock yards
for the week ending February Is were
$685. cattle, 543 sheep, 1889 swine and
665 calves.
Because of the snow and the consequent
delays in transportation the offerings of
beef cattle from nearby points were
lighter than expected, and the tendency
in price last Tuesday was upward. Actual
salesincluded; beef COWS. averaging IA
lbs, 3 3-4c; 3, S25 lbs, Lie: |, weighing
$50 lbs, 3c steer, 1880 lbs, Lie.
In mich COWS a fair business was put
through, and for choice grades S65 was
readily paid.
Veal calves brought high prices the de-
mand being active and the supply light
Sales included: Two calves, averaging 1856
lbs, &c; 6, 80 lbs, 3-4c -, 1O2 lbs, 6 l-2c; 5,
104 lbs, lie.
Arrivals of sheep and lambs from near
by points We're Insignificant. For Western
lambs prices equal To SO 10 here are being
paid
With the outlook for export business in
cattle shippers express themselves as
satisfied,
Western fat hogs sold at 3-S l. W. and
local hogs at 3-Sc d. W.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Practically Starving.

After using few bottles of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure my wife received per-
feet and permanent relief from a Sc
we're and chronic case of stomach
trouble" says j. r. Holly, real es-
tate, insurance, and loan agent of Ma
comb, Ill. Before using Kodol Dys-
pepsia cure she could not eat an ordi-
nary meal without intense suffering.
She is now entirely cured. Several
physicians and many remedies had
failed to give relief, You don't
have to diet. Eat any good food you
want but don't overload the stomach.
gest it foF you. W. E. TerTill q &
Co. @. Blakely.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
RISING WATERS

Philadelphia, Feb. 2S.-Manufac-
turing interests are suffering severely
from the flood. Three -fourths of the
Manayunk mills are idle. The tracks
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail
road are under water from Ivy Rock to
Conshohocton The Pennsylvania road
on the Trenton cut off is flooded.
Street car service at Trenton is at
standstill as the power house is flood
ed.
Port Deposit M. d., Feb %. The
Susquehanna is rising rapidly and peo-
pie are leaving their homes. Rail
roads are flooded and telegraph COM
munication is broken. Towns above
are inundated. The Susquehanna at
Lancaster, Pa, fell last night after
breaking the high water record of
1889, but is rising again this morning.
Cumberland, Md, Feb %. - The
situation is grave. 1t is believed be-
fore midnight every railroad centering
here will be tied up. The banks Of
the Chesapeake and Ohio canal threat
en- to give way and flood the lower
part of the city The gorge, twenty
five feet high at Germantown, Nd. /,
fifty miles north, broke this morning,
flooding the town. The people are
huddled together on second floors, UNI
able to escape. The West Virginia
Central is tied up and every bridgN ON
the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
between here and Piedmont Is gone.
Georges Greek mining regions are
flooded and all towns are under water
Pittsburg, Feb. 2S. - The great
gorges of the Allegheny are broken.
The ice is sweeping down on the city
Two steamers are caught and several
coal barges have been crushed. Ex-
citement near the river is intense.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
AGRICULTURAL.
SELL NEAR AT HOME.

There is no better advice that can
be given to any one who raises poul-
try and eggs for money than the
above Sell your eggs and poultry
near home and in the end better profits
will be realized 1t is astonishing
how the home markets are neglected
in this respect. The summer hotels
in the country and the winter hotels
in the South get all their supplies
from some large city, even their poul-
try and eggs. ] have asked a number
of proprietors the reason for such an
anomaly. l was astonished at their
reply. In few words they said that
they could not rely on the home sup
ply of eggs or poultry. They would
be willing to pay a little more than
the market rates for either but the
farmers had become so accustomed to
sending their produce to the cities that
they were slow in adopting any other
course. They would some days bring
i'll plenty of fresh eggs, and then for
a week nothing more would be heard
of them. This irregularity could not
be endured.
Yet, as another instance of just the
opposite, there is an enterprising
young woman who has poultry farm
not far from summer resort. She
has contracted to deliver ten doz-
en- eggs q day through the summer
season to the hotels at uniform
price of % cents dozen. The eggs
are all fresh and she is to be relied
upon. The hotels would even take
more from her, and she is making
efforts to enlarge her plant. She
her summer eggs than with her winter
products. Her ambition is to enlarge
her poultry farm, so she can supply the
hotels with spring broilers and tender
chickens all through the summer sea
SON. Her income then will be entire
~ satisfactory.
But even in ordinary towns and vii
lagos there are always plenty of fami-
lies who are willing to buy their eggs
fresh every few days from some near
by poultry farm. The prices obtained
in this way will be far more remuner-
ative than those paid in some distant
city. In the summer time fully 40
per cent of the eggs shipped fifty
miles or more are partially or wholly
ruined by hot weather. The loss sus-
tanned in this way is enormous and
the farmers are the ones to endure it.
By all means the remedy is to Guilt
waite the nearby markets. Do not try
to ship eggs to New York, Philadel-
phia or other large cities if you live
i'll the West or South. There are near
er markets which will pay you better
Annie G. Webster in American Cul-
tivator.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

and Mr.. Rathburne between $400 and
$500 with the Vermont Mutual.
The floor and rafters in the attic
were charred but the greater damage
will be from the water. 1t is esti-
maed at $3.50. A fire occurred at this
house nine years ago last May.
Mr.. Hunt was unable to give any
assistance, as he was suffering from
broken leg. The theory of spon-
taneous combustion is advanced but
not so readily accepted as that some
one may have gone to the garnet
smoking a pipe or cigar and that the
sparks ignited the paper and rags.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
RETAIL DEALERS PRICES.

There is more catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together and until the last few years was
supposed to be incurable For a great
many years doctors pronounced it local
disease, and prescribed local remedies,
and by constantly falling to cure with To-
cal treatment, pronounced it incurable
science has proven catarrh to be cons
titutional disease. and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. j. Cheney &
tional cure on the market 1t is taken in
ternally in doses from 16 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system
They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure. Send for circulars
and testimonials.
Address, +. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
o. Sold by Druggists roc.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
DOMESTIC.

New York, Feb 27.-Prince Henry's
visit has revived the trouble between
Cornelius and Alfred Vanderbilt. Cor
nelius although practically disinheited
by his father, who placed Alfred at
the head of the family, will entertain
the Prince at dinner when the party
returns to New York. Notwithstand-
ing the objections of Alfred it will be
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt who will
entertain Prince Henry. There will
be perhaps fifty guests present, the
pick of New York society. Following
the dinner will be an entertainment
such as New York rarely sees in a
private house.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Can't Keep Secret.

The splendid work of DR.. Kings New
life Pills is daily coming to light. No such
grand remedy for Liver and Bowel troub-
les was ever known before Thousands
bless them for curing Constipation, Sick
Headache, Biliousness, Jaundice and In
gestion Try them. 25c at G. Blakelys
drugstore.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Would Snna sh the Club.

If members of the inlay Fever Associ-
alton" would use Dr. Kings New Discov-
cry for Consumption, the club would go
to pieces, for it always cures this malady,
and Asthma, the kind that battles the
doctors-it wholly drives from the system.
Thousands of once-hopeess sufferers from
Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis owe
their lives and health to it, 1t conquers
Grip, saves little ones from Group and
Whooping Cough and is positively guaran-
teed for all Throat and Lung troubles, SOC,
Sl.OO. Trial bottles free at Q. Blakely's
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
FOREIGN.

Paris, Feb. 26. The one hundredth
anniversary of the birth of Victor Hugo
was officially celebrated with great
pomp today in the Pantheon in the
presence of President Loubet and six
thousand guests including various
ministers, ambassadors, diplomatic at
taches, member of the Senate, cham
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Lockjaw from cobwebs.

Cobwebs put on cut lately gave
woman lockjaw Millions know that the
best thing to put on cut is Bucklen's
Arnica Salve, the infallible healer of
Wounds, Ulcers, Sores, Skin Eruptions,
Burns. Scalds and Piles. 1t cures or no
pay. Ouly 25c at G. Blakely's drug store
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

The item in the net amounts expend-
ed column devoted to the water de-
partment is marked with a star to
show that it differed from the others
in that the receipts of that department
exceeded the expenditures by the
amount given.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

"a GRAVEYARD COUGH" is the cry of
tortured lungs for mercy Give them mercy
in the form of Aliens Lung Balsam, which
is used with good effect even in consump-
TONS early stages. Never neglect a cough
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

Accidents come with distressing fire
quency on the farm. Cuts, bruises, stings
sprains. DR.. Thomas Eclectric Oil re
lieves the pain instantly. Never safe,
without it
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05
Are You Using Aliens Foot Ease?

Shake into your shoes ALIENS Foot
Ease, a powder. 1t cures Corns, Bun
ions, Painful, Smarting, Hot, Swollen
Feet. At all druggists and Shoe
Stores, 25c
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1902-03-05

Appropriations Net Amounts Appropriations
for 1901. Expended. for 1902.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-09
WHALE SINKS ii SHIP. !.
Htiaatrpooner Teilsa aphic story] OF, this
%LeviAthan'sA Attack on the X athleen..

harnooner Tells Ora pllic etory Of the
LeviAthan'sAt Attack on the Kathleep.
Adrift in an open boat 1000. miles from
lahu and watching their sranch snip not
tar away sink unuer the fierce ramming
y an ellraged Nv hate was, the narrowing
eAperience OF eight members of lhe crew
=. the whaling bark Kathleen 5of New
hedf0rd. They were rescued and land
eu IN New YORK. on the steamer Madlanu
1fom the West Indies. .,5& 4 I'D - H..
-; MANUEL Vlero, mulatto, was the cap
IAN: tam OF the boats crew. His compan-
Ions are from Cape Cod. .Viero told their
story thus .- ~. 4. 81:
We had been cruising all season off
tne coast o. Brazil without any luck.
About noon on March II the lookout
sang OUT. There she blows!. and we
were up smack into a school of whales
-FOUR -FOUR boats wre lowered. We killed
three whales and had one alongside be-
lore dark. Two more were being towed
to the bark when the lookout saw an
o OF :. spout and the skipper told me to
''The men laid down their work and
we soon came up with the fellow we
were after. He was an old bull and
mere was all of eighty barrels under his
81 nlde: We came up softly and 1 drove
Inc iron into his hump up; to- the shank.
-. w ~ 4uIFef ana gave the Oruef 70
spring the oars hard
The old brute sounded but didn't
60 Gown deep. He came up right beside
the boat, thrashing and hitting about
with his tail. He seemed to sight the
Dark, for he started for her like black
streak
The line spun out of the tub hole
smoking. The old buster was mad
WITH rage and pain. To save ourselves
took boat spade and cut the line The
whale shot ahead straight for the bark.
HE rammed her like a locomotive en-
s1ne, striking her just abaft midships
and Shaving in her Sides He drew. hack
ana gave her couple more Mall0ps
with his tail, then turned and went BOOM
ing away. spouting clear and strong.
The Kathleen filed and sank in about
twenty minutes.
I'VE were 1000 miles east of Barbados,
the nearest land. The boat had a cask
OF water and box of biscuits. and we
t:ted her up with a jury rig and started
for Barbados.
On the eleventh day we made the
little island of Dominica. in the West
Indies and were taken care Of
The other members Of the crew, thirty
! persons in all, including one woman.
We're picked up and landed at Fernam-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-09
DANGEROUS KIDNEY DISEASES CURED
Pe'ru.pa Creating Natiopal Sensation in tho Cure
Of Chronic Ailments Of the Kidneys.

Major T. II. Mars, Of the First Wis
consin Cavalry regiment. writes from
1925 Dunning street, Chicago, ILL.,, the
following letter: -. - .'~ 49,.
"Eor years suffered with catarrh0f
the kidneys contracted in the army.
Medicine aid not help me any until &
con1rade who had been helped by Pc
runa advised me to try II: /. bought
some at once, and soon found blessed
relief kept taking it four months,
and am now well and strong md feel
better than I have done for. the past
twenty years, thanks to Peruna. "---
+. III. Mars. r.:
Mr.. John Vance. of Hartford, City,
Ind. says: my kidney trouble is much
BETTER l have improved so much that
everybody wants to know what medi-
cine I am using. l recommend Peruna
to everybody and some have commenced
to use it. The folks all say that if DIR.
Hartman's medicine cures me it must be
great. John Vance.
;: Mr.. j. Brake, Of Petr0Iea, Ontario,
Canada. writes: "F0ur years ago /
had a severe attack of Bflghf's dis
ease, which brought me so low the
doctor said nothing more. could be
done for me-. I.began to take Peruna
and Manalin, and In three months /
was q wen man, and have continued
so ever since. "zz--L Brake. ~
At the appearance of the first symptom
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1902-05-09
SPINNING WHEEL,
"FR-R-RAISH PEANUTS"

'FR-R-RA1SH PEANUTS"
Who Is This man Of mighty voice
Who bids all human kind rejoice
Who visits bleacher and grand stand
With roasted rapture in his hand?
Peanuts! Fr-r-raish peanuts!.''
Who, when the umpire shouts: ''Play ball"
Heals with disdaip the feeble call,
And whose own stentor- modelled lungs
Drown out the noise of many tongues?
Peanuts! Fr-r-raish peanuts!'
Who stirs the circumamblent air
And moves hts optics here and there
10 lind the man who cries: Here, boy,
Give me one sack of roasted joy!'
Peanuts! Fr-r-raish peanuts"
Who hastens onward with his wares
While every individual glares
Who lacks the necessary price;
Who cuts a mighty slab of ice?
Peanuts! Fr-r-raish peanuts"
And when we seek our restless beds -.
With goober COLLINS in our heads
What is the awful cry that seems
To be the burden of our dreams?
Peanuts! Fr-r-raish peanuts!
Baltimore News.