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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-04-06
LESTER PIANOS ARE THE BEST

$3.50 buys a Lester Concert Grand Upright
Piano. new scale: one Of the highest grades in
the world: a ten-year guarantee. Money can't
buy better. Cash or time. Up-to-date piano.
See and hear them before buying. at Frank
Stells salesrcoms. l4li and I4ie n. Sixteenth st.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Narrow Escape from DROWNING.

Miss Mabel Coyne, a teacher in
North Troy, recently narrowly escap-
ed drowning. Miss Coyne went to
the ledge on the bank of the Missis-
quot river, few rods south of her
boarding place, and had been there
only few moments when she slipped
on the rock and fell into the river,
which was at full bank. Screaming
for help and grasping at everything
on the shore, she was swiftly carried
several rods down stream toward the
falls before rescue came. Fortunate
Iy the terrified girl caught an over
hanging bush. Meanteme her cries
reached little Lucretia Porter, who
ran to the barn and told Park, her
brother and William Elmes that
someone was in the river. Both men
FASTENED in the direction of the cries
and with considerable difficulty res
cued Miss Coyne from her perilous
position. 1t was several days before
she recovered from the shock. For
several generations back on her ma
ternal side one member of the family
has met death bv drowning, a fact
which Miss Coyne says came to her
mind during her immersion.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
PROFITS IN FARMING.

In computing the profits connected
with farming it is never fair to take
results for any single year. There is
of necessity, owing to climatic condi-
tons, markets, crop failures in other
portions of the earth, wars, legislation
and other things, nothing uniform in
farm profits one year with another,
and to correctly estimate the profits of
q well managed farm no less period
than ten years should be taken, the
average profits for such a term then
fairly representing the profits of the
business. For instance, we have been
told by several business farmers that
the profits on their farm operations for
the year 1901 were not less than 20 per
cent upon the capital invested, this net,
after all expenses were deducted.
Then we have known more than one
year when the farm was operated at an
actual loss. But few farmers keep any
book accounts with their farms, and,
as one man told US, the only way he
knew when he was making any money
was when he took a load of hogs to
market and there was not some fellow
waiting for the money when he got
home.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
FARM, ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
THE OLD GRANGER IN TOWN,

The sixty-year-old granger who rents
Or sells his farm and moves to town
gets along all right for the first six
months, He enjoys the relief from the
burdens of farm work, the making Of
new acquaintance, the loafing around
the streets and in the stores, but pretty
soon this gets to be an old story, and he
begins to find life in town desperately
monotonous, and for diversion he very
naturally turns to local politics and
tries to run for county supervisor, and
by the time the local sharps have
knocked the stuffing out of him at the
caucus he thinks there is no place quite
80 good Oh earth as the old home on
the farm, and he is just about right in
his conclusions. The very best thing for
most such men is to stay in the old
home on the farm, build tenant house,
hire a good married man by the year
and have the fun of bossing the job.
With all the modern Improvements
which may be secured tC make farm
life pleasing and attractive and all the
associations connected with a life work
on the old farm and with nothing on
earth to do in town but loaf, we cannot
see where any man betters himself by
making this change. Put $1,000 into
improvements in the home on the farm,
and it is the best home to be had.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
The Poisoning OF Horses.

Horses are often seriously poisoned
and sometimes killed by eating hay
containing the so-called "foxtail,"
''horsetail," "pine top" 'meadow
pine" or "rush," known botanically
as Equisetum arvense. This fact has
been conclusively proved by expert
ments made at the Vermont Expert
ment Station. Many practical farm
ers and horsemen became convinced
years ago that this kind of poisoning
occurs, uut their observations have
disagreed and contradicted until the
matter had to be settled by scientific
experiment.
These experiments have been con-
Quoted by Or F. A. Rich, veterinarian,
and Prot |. r. Jones, botanist, of the
Vermont Experiment Station, and
their conclusions have just been made
public.
Amongst other tests, "swale hay"
containing considerable quantities OF
this rush" or foxtall," was fed to
horses. Symptoms of poisoning fol
lowed and the horses died from the
effects. Numerous similar cases OF
accidental poisoning have been stud
led.
Many farmers, who have noticed
the bad effects of feeding 'swale hay"
have LAID the blame on ferns or
brakes" which it contained. This
seems to be entirely u mistake. The
tqulsetum alone should be con-
demned.
Horses are the only animals seri-
ously eff cted by this weed. Sheep
may possibly be hurt by it, but that
is a question. Cows tat it with im-
punity.
In the horse fquisetum produces a
nervous affection characterize by
loss OF muscular coordination. He
reels and staggers like drunken man
and, as the disease progresses, be-
comes unable to stand, goes dowr,
other nervous symptoms develop al d
death results in from four days to
two weeks.
Horses seem to acquire taste for
equisetum hay and eat it by prefer
enc. Young animals and those not
receiving grain are most susceptible
| 60 the POISONOUS action of the weed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Estate of George wilkins.
LICENSE TO SELL.

State of Vermont, District of Lamoile, SS.-In
Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, within and
for said District on the 28th day OF April,
A. ID. 1902
Paphro D. Pike, Executor of the estate of Geo.
makes application to said Court for license
to sell all of the real estate of said deceased,
representing that the sale would be beneficial
to all interested in said estate. Whereupon, il
is ordered by said Court, that said appli-
cation be referred to a session thereof. to be
held at the Probate Office, in said Hyde Park, on
the 18th day of May, A. d. 1902, for hearing
ordered, that all persons interested be notified
hereof, by publication of notice of said applica-
ton and order thereon, three weeks successive
Vile and Hyde Park before said time of hear
ing, that they may appear at said time and place
and, if they see cause, object thereto.
By the COurt.-Attest,
% EDWIN C. WHITE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Estate of Harley w. Camp.
LICENSE TO SELL.

State of Vermont, District Of Lamoille, ss.-
In Probate Court, held at Hyde Park, within
and for said District, on the 28th day OF April,
A. ID. 1902
Wallace W. spauld'ng, "A administrator of the
estate of Harley w. Camp, late of Wocott, in
said district, deceased, makes application to
said Court for license to Sell all of the real
estate of said deceased, agreeaby to Sec. l, No
SO, Acts of 1900. representing that the sale is
necessary for the payment OF the debts of
said deceased and the charges of admins
tration of his estate. Whereupon, il is Or
dered by said Court that said application
be referred to a session thereof to be
held at the Probate Office, in said Hyde Park,
on the 18th day of May, A. d. 1902 for hearing
and decision thereon and it is further
ordered, that all persons interested be notified
hereof by publication of notice of said applica-
ton and order thereon. three weeks success
svely in the News and Citizen. printed at Nor
rsville and Hyde Park, before said time Of
hearing, that they may appear at said time and
place, ana, if they see cause, object thereto.
By the Court test,
2S EDWIN Q. WHITE, Judge.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Mr.. ProctOr's Position.
(From the Montpelier Journal.)

The Journal addressed to Fletcher
D. Proctor this question:
If Mr.. Proctor we're elected Cover
nor would he veto a license measure
If yes, on what grounds ?
Up to the date of the publication Of
this issue of the paper no answer to
the foregoing inquiry had been re-
ceived. 1t seems, however, that a
citizen of Orleans county had sent
Mr.. Proctor an inquiry covering the
same matter, which, with the candi'
dates reply, has been sent to this
paper for publication. Subjoined is
the correspondence:
West Derby, Vt, April 26, 1902.
Hon. z. D. Proctor, Proctor, Vt.
Dear Sir
The position which you would take
toward liquor legislation, in the event of
your election as governor, is being dis
cussed here, and l would be glad to have
you write me whether you would veto
high license or local option bill or not.
Yours truly,
j. S. STILES.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14

The April fire loss in the United
States and Canada was $13, 1894, 600,
against ST., 352,S00 in 1901 and
$25, 727, 900 in 1900. The total loss
this year for the four months ended
with April was SCI, 1894, 500, against
$50, 956,O00 in 1901 and $66,25S,-
500 in 1900. There is not much COM
fort in these figures. Those for 1902
are about $5,000,000 greater than
those for the same period of 1901,
and the 1900 record was exceptional
because it included the big confagra-
ton in Ottawa-Hull, Canada. The
other two-thirds of this year may do
better, but there is nothing encour-
aging in the present exhibit.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Estate of II. w. Camp.
II9N"N7 VI
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.
The undersigned having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District OF
Lamoille, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of H. W. Camp, late Of
Wolcott, in said District, deceased, and all
claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
aforesaid at the late re sldence of H. w.
Camp in WolcOtt on the 18th day of May and
I4th day of October, next, from 10 o'clock a.
and that six months from the 14th day
of APRIL A. D.. 1902, is the time limited
by said Court for said creditors to present
their claims to us for examination and
allowance.
Dated at wolcott this Goth day of April,
A, ID. 1902 F. p. SHELDON,
II, L. STEVENS,
2S Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Estate of George wilkins.
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE.

The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Honorable Probate Court for the District of
Lamoile commissioners, to receive, examine,
and adjust all claims and demands of all persons
against the estate of George wilkins, late OF
Stowe in said district, deceased and all
claims exhibited in Offset thereto, hereby give
notice that we will meet for the purposes afore-
said at the Office room occupied by said George
wilkins in his lifetime as law office, over the
post office, in Stowe, on the 29th day of May and
cath day of October next, from 10 O'Clock a. m.
until O'Clock p. m. each of SAID days, and that
six months from the 25th day of April, A. ID.
1902, is the time limited by said Court tor said
creditors TO present their claims to us for exam
ination and allowance.
Dated at Stowe, this 9Th day of MAY, A. d.
1902. JAMES W, BROCK,
HIRAM A. HUSE,
GEO. S. McALLISTER,
80 Commissioners.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Rock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee"

AS the Gazette has stated before, F.
D. Proctor is on record as voting
against and working against the Aus
tralian ballot system. No law has
ever been enacted which has tended
to purify the ballot system as has
this, and it is to-day deservedly pop
ular. Just what was Mr.. Proctor's
reason for fighting it is not hard to
figure out. Under the Australian
system the Proctors would lose in a
measure absolute control of the fran
chise of their little army of hard
worked, poorly paid laborers. Mr..
Proctor didn't like this idea of course.
His "big, hearty voice" trembled at
the thought of it, and he labored
strenuously to defeat the measure.
Selfish motives prompted him; his
whole public career shows that selfish
ness is the main spring of his being.
-HardWick Gazette.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
THE MUsKEG SWAMP.

We have two inquiries as to the
best treatment to give a reclaimed mus
keg swamp-one of those prairie ponds
where in an early day the wild ducks
used to nest and the rats build their
houses. These sWamps, when drained,
differ very materially from the wire
grass or peat marsh and demand very
different treatment. 1t is often found
that when such swamps are drained
and an attempt is made to grow crops
upon them something is wrong, and the
crops fail. The trouble lies in an excess
of lime and potash or alkali in such
soils. For a time after reclamation 1t
is of no use to plant corn or attempt to
grow the common cereals on such
ground. The best thing to do is to give
it a good dressing of barnyard ma
nure and get the soil into timothy as
soon as possible, but if the land must
be cropped potatoes will be found the
best crop to plant. After few years in
meadow or even pasture this sour, al
kali trait in the soil will be tanned, and
such reclaimed land will be found to
be the most productive of any on the
farm. The peat slough should be got
into pasture as soon as possible. 1t will
be thus compacted, the peat will decay
and later it will produce wonderful
crops of corn or flax.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
EIGHTY BUSHELS OF CORN TO THE
ACRE.

We are asked how to raise eighty
bushels of corn to the acre. No matter
what man may do, this cannot always
be done because of weather condi-
tons; but, assuming that it is to be a
good corn year, the following things
must be done: Soil selected, a piece of
good land, to be a clover sod, upon
which fifteen loads of barnyard ma
nure are spread before blowing; pillow
six inches deep first week in May; disk
three times and harrow four times be-
fore planting; get selected seed; be sure
to have two stalks in a hill and not
more than three; drag, after planting,
every day till the corn shows above
ground; give one deep cultivation, the
rest shallow; pillow it six times, and,
the season being good, you will get
your eighty bushels and maybe more.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Maxims for the Married.

Since you are married you may as
well make the best of it.
So make some maxims and try to
live up to them.
And don't be discouraged if you
fail. You will fail, but perhaps you
won't always fail.
Never both be cross at the same
time. Wait your turn.
Never cease to be lovers. If you
cease some one else may begin.
You were gentleman and lady before
you were husband and wife. Don't
forget it.
Keep yourself at your best. 1t is a
compliment to your partner.
Keep your ideal high. You miss it,
but if is better to miss a high one
than hit a low one.
A blind love is a foolish love. En-
courage the best.
Permanent mutual love.
The tight cord is the easiest to snap.
Ifyou take liberties be prepared to
give Gnem.
There is only one thing worse than
quarrels in public. That is caresses.
Money is not essential to happi-
ness, but happy people usually have
enough.
So save some.
The easiest way of saving is to do
without things.
Ifyou can't then you had better do
without wife.
The man who respects his wife does
not turn her into a mendicant. Give
her a purse of her own.
If you save, save at your own ex-
pense.
In all matters of money prepare al
ways for the worst and hope for the
best.
~, -
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
WIFE NOTICE.

To all whom it may concern. Whereas,
my wife, Saloma Bedell, has. without Just
cause or provocation, left my bed and board,
will pay no debts of her contracting after
this date. ALBERT ]. BEDELL.
Morrisville, Vt, April 80, 1902 %
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14

Scratch, scratch, scratch unable to attend
to business during the day or sleep during the
night. Itching piles horrible plague. Doan's
Ointment cures. Never fails. At any drug
store, so cents.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14

Impossible to foresee an accident. Not i'm.
possible to be prepared for it. DR.. Thomas
Eclectric Oil-Monarch over pain.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Mr.. J S. Stiles,
West Derby, Vt.
DR.. L. A, Russlow,
Randolnh VT

DR.. L. A, Russlow,
Randolph, Vt,
My Dear Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 18th inst.
| am perfectly willing to state to you
frankly my position in respect to the pro-
hibitory law. | am and always have been
in favor of it, and | have always so voted
when in the Legislature. | believe that
it is better suited to promote the welfare
and sobriety Of our state than any scheme
of license
Yours very truly,
(Signed) FLETCHER D. PRoCTOR.
Proctor, Vt, April 16, 1902.
1t will be seen on reading of Mr..
Stiles letter that he asked a direct
question, which could be answered by
d simple yes or no.
1t will be seen further that, instead
of replying directly to direct ques-
ton MIR. Proctor refers Mr.. Stiles to
Mr.. Proctor's letter to DR.. Russlow of
Randolph, in reply to the candidates
position on the license question. Mr.,
Proctor says his answer to DR.. Russ
| pw's letter "covers my position
fully"
Referring now to Mr.. Proctor's re-
ply to DR.. Russlow the reader finds
simply statement that Mr.. Proctor
is, and has always been, in favor of
the prohibitory law, and the express
sion of his belief that it is better suit
ed to this state than any scheme of
license. One seeks in vain in this let
ter for thesuggestion of an answer of
any kind, direct or indirect, to Mr..
Stiles direct and simple question,
framed to permit an answer OF eyes"
or mo"
y If the frantic license advo-
Gates who are supporting Mr.. Proc
tor deemed Gen. McCullough's letter
defining his position on the question
OF the regulation of the liquor traffic
"straddle," a dodge" and all else
it has become under the perverting
process of the Proctor-high-license-
local-option partisans, what terms
adequately describe Mr.. Proctor's re-
ply to plain question that goes to
the very heart of this whole matter of
temperance legislation?
1t is to be deeply regretted that Mr..
Proctor, whom his partisans have
been loudly extolling for his crank, "
manly" fearless" etc., ETC., de-
clarations on the subject of prohibi-
ton, has utterly evaded the one ques-
ton of fundamental Importance, has
dodged-out and out-the one inquiry
appertaining to his power and duty
un6nr tho laws and oODltitutiOn az
governor, to impress himself upon
legislation affecting the temperance
question.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
Proctor, Vt, April 30, 1902.

Ny Dear Sir
Replying to yours of the 26th, would
say that | enclose herewith a copy of
letter wrote DR.. Russlow OF Randolph in
reply to an inquiry from him regarding
my position on the license question.
Think this covers my position fully, and
am very glad indeed to send you this
copy
Very truly yours,
F. D. PROCTOR.
Mr.. S. Stiles,
West Derby, Vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14

BODY II increases the vital power ana
promotes a vigorous old age.
III was sufferer from chronic diarrhea for five
years" writes Mrs. Mary A. Aaron, of Rolla,
Phelps Co., Mo. III tried different remedies,
which would give me relief for a short time
only. My trouble would return as bad as ever.
! consulted you in July, 1900, and by your advice
commenced using DR.. Pierce's remedies. I took
two bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery
three walls of the Pellets and some of the
Extract of Smart-Weed, as you advised. I
have not had any return of my trouble since
using your medicines. Am now seventy-one
years old and l never had anything to relieve
me so quick. think DR.. Pierce's medicines the
greatest earth. Should 1 ever have any re.
turn of my trouble shall use your medicine.
My thanks to you for your advice and thanks
to Almighty God for restoring me to health
through your hands"
Accept no substitute for "Golden Med
ical Discovery" There is nothing "just
as good" for diseases of the stomach,
blood and lungs.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, the best
laxative for old people. They cure con-
stipation and biliousness.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14

Two million Americans suffering the tortur-
ing pangs of dyspepsia. No need to. Bur-
dock Blood Bitters cures. At any drug store.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
A Too Literal Translation.
From the New York Sun !


A missionary lately returned from
India, now in this city, complains of
the slow progress made out there in
converting the natives on account of
the difficulty in explaining the teach,
ings of Christianity so that the igno-
rant peoplewill fully understand them.
Some of the most beautiful passages
in the Bible are destroyed by trans
lation. He attempted once to have
the hymn,
Brock of ages, cleft for me,
Let me hide myself in thee"
translated into the native dialect, so
that the natives might appreciate it's
beauty. The work was done by a
young Hindu Bible student. The
next day he brought his translation
to the missionary for approval, and
his rendering, translated back in Eng
lish, read like this :
every old stone, split for my benefit,
Let me absent myself under one of your frag-
ments"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1902-05-14
THE HIRED MAN AND HIS Horse.

THE HIRED MAN AND HIS HORSE.
Within few years past the question
of keeping a horse for the hired man
on the farm has come to the front and
is today in many portions of the west
at least a very live one. The farmer
who employs help very naturally does
not take kindly to this proposition,
claiming that the keep of such horse
is an added expense to him, that time
which should be put in in caring for
his own horses is used by the hired
man in caring for his horse and that
the keeping of such horse, with buggy
attachment, has a tendency to keep
the hired man out late at night giving
the girls buggy rides. But hired men
are scarce and good ones hard to get,
and so in most cases the farmer has to
submit to what he thinks, with good
reason, is an imposition. 1t stands
about like this: Through much of the
agricultural west the man is paid from
$24 to $2S per month, some of them
$50. He gets the best of board, his
washing and horse kept on the fat Of
the land. If he has not got snap, who
has? At present prices he costs the
man who hires him not less than $45
per month.
, 1902-12-26

10 a greet extent are responsible and
should receive the credit for many of
The Improvements that are made and
also for Ping the means of introducing
ana helAng to locate capitalists on the
island. FThe benefit derived from their
lncom1nals felt by every one engaged
N busllfss or labor on the beach.
Holly Bfch today furnishes the bulk
Of the laor for skilled mechanics in
the e%rectin of so many handsome cot
tages andalso at North Wildwood in
oeautifyi & and clearing up an extern
sive trad both east and west of the
railroad y both the North Wildwood
Land company and Henry II. Ottens.
The result of all these efforts will he
manifest ext season when the city folk
make the appearance. From one end
OF the lslaid to the other is a uniformity
OF improvement, and this leads to the
predlctloIthat within another year we
may expet to see the trolley running
% turtle lut lnlet with a mammoth
pavilion tere as a terminus, a board
walk the ntlre length of Holly Beach,
a complefi auditorium at Wildwood,
a great bu ding boom at Anglesea and
an lncreasi value to all reality holdings.