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The independent., 1903-01-15

prevailing policy is not to require the
head officer of any department to do
any work only to draw his big salary
and spend it. He must have a deputy,
clerk, shorthand reporter and a
typewrite~ to start with and then as
many more Wedged in as possible af-
terwards. A board of control of all
the state institutions, including all
supply purchasing, is certainly coIu-
mendable.
The independent., 1903-01-15

We do not neel beard of control
and a state accountant added to all orr
present state employees. The present
The independent., 1903-01-15

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the state institutions, including all
supply purchasing, is certainly com-
mendable.
Yes, the home for the friendless
should be put back into the hands Of
the women. They know better how tc
care for babies than politicians do.
No state institution was managed as
we'll or as economically as the home
for the friendless by the women. They
received by voluntary contributions
thousands of dollars to be used il
that Institution, thus relieving the
taxpayers Of nearly one-fourth of the
running expenses. The law chang
ing management was one of the things
that knocked out the party in power.
1t would be equally proper to take the
state lair out of the hands of the
farmers. The state owns the ground
and furnishes part of the running
expenses SO the state owned the
buildings of the home for the friend
less and furnished little larger pro-
portion of the running expenses. Poll
ticians know as much about farming
as they do about caring for homeless
children.
There are several other measures
recommended in the two messages
that should be carefully considered by
the legislature. The labor bureau is
OF no use to the taxpayers. We do
not believe in any civil service law
that will give state Office for life
as the national law does. We be-
l1eve the normal school at Peru SHOULD
be moved into the central part of the
state or else second one established
west of the center District judges are
too numerous and five supreme judges
will be a plenty, an odd number would
be best so they could not divide even
We think one experimental farm is
enough, Selling value should be the
basis of all tax levies. Up to the
present time the policy of every ad-
mlnistration has been to Increase the
number of state officers and employees.
We are glad for once that a reduc-
tior of state expenses has been rec
commended. State, county and city
better pay security companies for
bonds rather than not to have any,
body watch our treasurers. Every
treasurer, city, county and state
should be required to report the re-
celpts and payments of the month and
where every dollar of balance is.
H. W. HARDY.
The independent., 1903-01-15

voters-and boldly counted out under
authority of the railroads Of Nebras-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
News and Notes

The recent preach ng of the gospel
of good seed" has induced popular de-
mand for the best recleaIed grass seed.
1t appears to be a fact that when the
conditions are favorable clover may be
stored much greener than was formerly
thought possible and that the very best
quality of hay may be secured in this
way.
1t is now told that Rhodesia, South
Africa, is great corn growing country.
Nitrate of soda and muriate of potash
are about as soluble as sugar or salt, re-
marks an exchange.
Professor Smith of Michigan, as QUOT
ed by Rural New Yorker, warns farm
ers that vetch on fertile soil may de-
generate into troublesome weed. 1t
is impossible to gather all the seed,
and, where wheat follows, vetch seed
cannot be screened from the wheat
seed.
When you pound your finger don't
blame the hammer. Same way with q
great many other things in this world.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Foot Ball Days Have Come Again.

How lightly the inspired poet can talk on
horr bic consequences is illustrated by these
football liaes from The Chicago Record Her.
aid:
fhe football days have come again, the glad
dest of the year;
One side Of Wilia's nose is gone, and Tom
has lost an ear;
Heaped on the field, the players jtb and
puI CHI and CLAW and Lr.
They kn' OK the breath from those beneath
and gOuge without q care;
They break each Others arms and legs, and
pull hints ont of place,
And e g aud there il one who gets his teeth
kicked from his face.
The freshman and the sophomore besmeared
with CRIME and mud
Go calamity to get the ball and quit all
bathed in blood;
Che senior knocks the junior down and kicks
him ii he chest,
The high school boy is carried home and
gently laid at rest
While here and there a crowded stand col
Ispses meath its weight,
And ferry people get'more than they paid for
at the gate
o brave. o happy careless daysl How deep
the mothers JOY
What mr ebe thinks Of all tie things they re
doing to her boy!
How proud she is to know that he is on the
team; how sweet
Tjis f., appears to her sit ce it is only bloody
meat!
With honest pride she lays away his ampu-
tated ear
t,ea pNts his eve in alcohol to h . souvenir.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Danes and Germans.

The character and temperament Of
the population of north Sleswick are
very quiet and peaceable. AS an Of
fetal Prussian record of criminal cases
states, there is in the whole German
empire no single province in which so
few sentences are passed by the GRIM
inal judges as in north Sleswick.
There were only half the Prussian aver
age of theft cases and cases of robbery
with murder and murderous assault.
These favorable crime statistics are
due principally to the good bringing up
and intelligence of the middle and
lower classes as well as to the cordial
and harmonious family life of the Dan
ish population. Among the individual
members of the family there always
exists a consistently affectionate and
hearty tone in their intercourse with
each other. l visited many theaters,
restaurants and inns which were prin-
cipally frequented by the Danish in
habitants, but nowhere saw an i'm
proper action nor an i'll hammered Of
Tense The intercourse between master
and servant is also Away friendly and
polite.-W. Hartmann in Nineteenth
Century.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
THE DAIRY COW.
Form of the Animal and MILK and
Butter Production.


Butter Production.
There is a certain type of COW ex-
hibiting marks that indicate dairy eX-
cellence. This is so well established
as to make the decisions in the show
ring and to enter i'll as an important
factor In the buying and selling of
dairy animals. This matter of type is
illustrated in our station herd, the tend
ency being for the animals scoring
highest in the judging ring to be the
largest and most economical producers
of milk and butter. The animal scOr-
ing highest IN the station herd has
made yield of ten times her weight
in milk and 6S per cent of ler weight
in butter in one year. Taking the whole
herd into consideration the type viii
not always follow the yield the eXcep-
tons to the rule being sometimes quite
marked. Bogdanow, a German au.
thority, made measurements on eighty
cows whereby they were formed in,o
groups of types. From the results
knowing the records Of the animals, lie
concludes that there is an unmlstaGl.
BILE relation between external form and
production of milk and butter. Beach,
from the results of experiment and OBJ
servation, states that the type of the
COW is more essential than the breed
as indicating the ability to produce
milk and butter economically.
The final test of any dairy cow is the
amount of milk and butter fat she will
yield for the food consumed. The diff
ference in COWS in this respect is quite
marked. With the scales and the Bah
cock test it is easy to learn what each
individual COW is doing. While some
animals in the dairy may be making
profits others may be losing to such an
extent as to even wipe out the profits
of the better COWS. During the year
under experiment our best COW gave an
amount of milk and butter more than
twice that of one of the poorer cows.
The difference in the gross receipts for
the milk during the first eight months
following calving was $1S4.S0 in favor
of the better COW. Waters and Hess
found a difference of $3310 in the
profits of two COWS for $50 days. Be
tween two others of accepted dairy
form the difference was $1499, and be-
tween two of similar type $124S.
The COW is a creature of habit and
therefore the time and manner of milk
ing should vary as little as possible
from day to day. The yield of milk
will sometimes vary by reason of mat
ters of such small moment that we fail
to reckon them. From our results a
change in mixers showed a small aver
age loss in yield. Some COWS were not
affected at all. while others gave
slightly reduced yield. This will de-
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Suicides on "BIue Monday"

A scientist who has made a study OF
suicides has discovered that more wom-
en- commit suicide on Monday than on
any other day Of the week.
Monday, blue Monday" as it has
long been called, is one of the most
trying days of the week for women
who are housewives, principally be-
cause it is wash day" Breakfast is
usually served earlier than on other
days and more hastily prepared. Tie
children are early hurried off to school
and dinner is often picked up" "Blue
Monday" is the one day in the week
when a housewives troubles, hard
work and annoyances seem to come all
at once; hence the significant name
for the first working day of the week.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
MCKINLEY SERVED COFFEE.
His Work at Antietam Concentrated by
a Handsome Monument.

A monument has been erected on
the famous battlefield of Autietam by
the state of OHIO to commemorate q
noble deed by the then Sergeant VIM.
Mckinley, September II, 1862. The
monument will be dedicated, along
with nine Others, October 10 The
monument is one OF the most beauti-
full, artistic and imposing on the bat
tlefi I'D. Sergeant Mckinley was a
member of Company E, Twenty-third
Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and on
September II, 1862, he, personally,
without orders, served hot coffee and
warm food to every man in the regi-
ment. The monuments erected on
the John Benner farm, ashOrt distance
above the Burnside Bridge 1t is a
massive piece o. granite 33h feet high,
and is of Ionic architecture with an
allegorical figure, life siza, on the cor
ner of the die In her Ief5 hand is a
furled flag and in her right she holds
a palm branch OF peace over the me-
dallions of Mckinley, which are sur
rounded by laurel wreath. The
medallions are OF bronz', represent
ing McKine y as a soldier and as
statesman On the face Of the base
is a battle scene ia bronze showing
Sergeant Mckinley distributing hot
coff ee and food to his regiment on
that hot afternoon of September II,
1862. The sh4f IL sgrl4ouu5ai hy q
granite eagle at hall fl ght. The var
ious inscriptions on the monument
state that the martyrad pres dent
served IA years in Congress, was twice
governor of O 40 and twice President
of the United States, and they tell of
his noble deeds at Altietam.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Hood Farm Lininlent
For Man and Beast.

The unequalled external remedy for
sprains, swellings, lameness, infiamma-
lions, and all aches and pains where
soothing, stimulating and strengthening
liniment is required.
Best Wash for Race or Work Horses
is made by putting two tablespoonful
Hood Farm Eminent in quart OF water.
Keeps them sleek and glossy.
"a first class liniment." c. M. WINCH,
Barre, VT.
"Best all round liniment I ever used"
C. It. MoNALLY, Groveton, N. III.
"Best on the market for taking soreness
out of horses" G. H. GORDON, trainer for
Hon. Warren f. Daniel, Franklin, N. III.
"a good clean preparation to use." G.
L. BLAKELY, 343 Winthrop st., Medford,
Mass, farmer for Gen. S. G. Lawrence.
Prices, 25c., Soc, 81 and 3d. Gallon ST..
For sale by SLAYToN & SANDERS, successors
to H. j. Dwinell, Morrisville vt.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Curiosities of Plants.

Times at which different plants open
and shut their petals have been investi-
gated. and it is commonly found that
the hour varies according to theamount
of moisture in the air. The main
thing is to protect the pollen from in
vading moisture, and since some plants,
such as the pimpernel, promptly close
their petals on the near approach OF
rain they serve as weather glasses
Some plants seem to believe in short
days work, the pimpernel, for instance.
opening at s in the morning and clos
ing at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the
goats beard, on the other hand, doing
business from a. m. to 10 p. m.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
TESTING Cattle.

"The State board of cattle COM
missioners, Hon. V. l. Spear, Drs. F.
A. Rich of Burlington and George
Stephens of White River Junction,
held a meeting last week to see
what is best to be done in view of
the recent ruling of the State Auditor
that ne is not authorized to pay vet
erinaries hired by the board to assist
in testing cattle for tuberculosis"
Says the Randolph Herald and News:
"This has been done to quite an ex-
tent up to now and the Auditor has
allowed the claims, but willnot here
after. The law is very peculiar in
respect of this feature. 1t requies
that the board, two of whom must
be veterinaries, shall test as appli-
cations are received, but it would re-
quire capacity equal to some of the
Arabian Nights heroes for two veter-
inaries to perform the task. There
are 100000 cattle in the State and
applications have come in so fast
that there is six months work ahead
now for the board of veterinaries.
The best that can be done now is to
look after the most tlreateningcase
and to supply the tuberculin to such
approved veterinaries as the farmers
who cannot wait their turn may en-
gage and pa for themselves. 1t
means bad check in the work that
was progressing nicely. There is un-
necessary expense, too, in having a
board veterinary journey many miles
to test few cattle which could just
as well be tested by some local veter-
mary, getting under the boards di-
rection."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Local Pride.

The Lyndonville Journal has few
practical hints in the following, and
well says:
The pride which a man naturally
feels for his birthplace, tor his town,
his state end his county, is perfectly
legitimate LIS r. x action upon
the community has the same eff ct
that self-res pect mas upon the char
acter OF all individual. If a town or
village hopes for prosperity, iU must
believe in itself. If It's citiz.ns never
have good word to say tor it, il
even small part of them are con
stantly running it down, prosperity
will pass by on the other side. Oh
course no community is perfect. The
millennium has not Yet settled upon
any tavOrite spot as far as we are
able to learn. But if evil conditions
exist, the true citlz3us will not run
up and down the earth tryi0g to
make people think his town is the
worst III the State He will go to
work in earnest to change those cOu-
ditions and to make his town what
it ought 10 be. In doing so it MAJ tse
necessary TO uncOvet the sore spots,
but the known fact that there ia an
effort to cleanse them is great deal
better than the suspicion that they
exist and are carefully concealed
through the co wardice OF false pride
Be proud of your town, and max"
the town worthy otyourp ide. 1t will
bring wealth, bu-ines. and larger
popul ltlon. AT the same time don't
run down your neighbors. Local
pride degenerates into proviDcialism
when it is unwilling to see and rpcog-
Mis- the good things in other places.
You can make your town a mighty
good place TO live in, but don't for
get that there may be others.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
NATURES OWN CURE.
tIyomei Cures Catarrh Without Dangerol S
Dragging of the Stomach.

etyVtSA DuuyCfUI
Dragging of the Stomach.
Not until Hyome was discovered
has it been possible to truthiully say
that remedy for catarrh was known.
This RENE ~ is breathed throug b
the Hyomei inhaler for few minutes
four times day, AMI during that
time every particle of air. taken into
the liar passages and lungs is impreg-
mated with the germ killing and
health giving Hyomei. 1t is the only
treatment that cures catarrh.
Stomach dragging often causes dis
ordered digestion or brings on some
other disease and never makes per-
manent cure of catarrh. Hyomei not
only kills the germ in the throat and
nose but penetrates to the minutest
air cells in the lungs and enters the
blood with the oxygen, killing the
germs in the blood. 1t frees the mu-
cous membrane from poisonous mi
erobes and gives perfect health.
A complete outfit costs but $1.00,
and includes an inhaler, dropper and
sufficient Hyomei for several weeks
treatment.
Hall & Cheney have so much faith
In the merit of Hyomei that they
agree to return the money to any
purchaser who may be dissatisfied.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

line IOundauOn cow OF the Kentucky eS-
pertinent station herd.]
pend, however, upon the ability of the
miller. Carlyle found no appreciate
difference in the frequent changing of
mixers. Tracy found by good mixer
following a careless one an increase
with five cows of pa pounds of milk
In two weeks.
Cows fed at milking time are apt to
hold their milk when the customary
feed is withheld. This may occur even
when the animals have access to album
dant pasture. This is so noticeable
with some of the station cows that it
is advisable to give them little grain
through the summer season to induce
them to give down their milk. Emery
notes that a COW that gave over seven
pounds of milk gave only two pounds
when her customary feed was withheld
at milking timed. w. May, Kentucky
Experiment Station.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
He Startled Her.

"Some women" he said, "have very
little sense of rhythmic time in their
heads. Are you good at keeping step,
Miss GushleighY
"Oh, Mr.. Grubbins," she cried. "this
is SO sudden
For of course all she knew about
keeping step was confined to the wed.
ding march.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
English ms She Is Punctuated.

In recent number Of the British
Medical Journal the troublesome COM
ma is responsible for the following
wonderful animal story:
"The driver having finished milking
his COW offered to take me into an adj
joining room where the milk was
cooled, saying that while he fetched
the manager could have a look
around"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
German Forethourht,

Wealthy Resident-Why don't you
call for more firemen, chief?
Chief of Volunteer Firemen-WeH
you see, we get only one keg of beer for
putting out fire, and the fewer there
are of us the more beer we shall have
to drink.-Fliegende Batter.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Independence That Counts

After all, it is the independence that
counts rather than either the wealth
or the poverty. The simplicity of
standing for just what one is. without
sham or pretense, lifts burden Of
fret or anxiety and leaves the spirit
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

""GassiDg" trees has become so large
a business in California that a Los
Angeles man has an outfit for it which
cost $4,000. Tents are used to con-
nne the gas to the trees and to protect
the operators from the deadly prussic
aeid which is liberated from a saucer
at the trees root.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

The total number of employees of all
the corporations is 100000, and they
receive in wages nearly $200,O00,OO0
The employees of these combinations
number only 8 per cent of all employees
In the factories in which combination
would be possible.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

A woman usually follows fashions in
dressing her hair till the second baby
comes, when she hasn't time to expert
ment and clings to the style prevalent
then till her death.-Atchison Globe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Too EnmiIinr.

Countess Ito new valet-Johann, |
observed yesterday, to my intense hor-
ror, that you clean my husbands
clothes and your own with the same
brush. | must strictly prohibit any
such familiarities for the future. From
the German.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
watch the KIdnavs ,

when they are affected, life is In
danger" says DR.. Abernethy, the
great English physician. Foley's
Kidney Cure makes sound kidneys.
Sold by Foss & Strong, Hyde Park G. P.
Jones, Johnson J. !. Vearen, Stowe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
InfantiIe PerversitY.

Hubby (walRing the floor at 2 a. m.
I'D just like to know why this baby
persists in staying awake every night.
Wifey-Really, I can't imagine. l
never have any trouble in keeping him
asleep in the daytime-New York
Weekly
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
Bell Ringing In London In 1909.

Bell Ringing In London In 1000.
Here is an extract from a journal of
the year 1900: On arriving in London
we heard a great ringing of bells in
almost all the churches going on very
late in the evening. We were informed
that the young people do that for the
sake of exercise and amusement, and
sometimes they pay considerable sums
as a wager who will pull a bell the
longest and ring it in the most ap-
proved fashion. Parishes spend much
money in harmoniously sounding bells,
that one being preferred which has the
best bells The old queen is said to
have been pleased very much by this
exercise, considering it as sign Of the
health of the people. They do not ring
the bells for the dead When a person
lies in agony the bells of the parish
he belongs to are touched with the
clappers until he either dies or recov-
ers again. AS soon as this sign is
given everybody in the street as well
as in the houses falls on his knees Of
fering prayer for the sick person.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

NO danger of consumption if you
use Foley's Honey and Tar to cure
that stubborn cough.
sold by Foss Strong, Hyde Park; C. p.
Jones, johnson ]. j. vearen, Stowe.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07

To the we'll prepared young man and
woman business life holds opportunities
as great as those in any profession. The
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1903-10-07
GAY Orphan, 26,95S,

1.-THE foundation cow of the Kentucky ex-
pertinent station herd
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-26
WHITE GIRL WEBS CHlNAMAN
Pretty Montana Girl Falls In Love Wit
San Francisco Celestial.

BUTTE MOnt.-Rather than stanC
trial for causing the downfall of Lee
ia Mccormick, pretty 1S-year-OlC
girl of Livingstone, Mont, under prom
se of marriage Charlie Kan, a Sar
Francisco Chinaman Friday afternoon
married the young woman while under
the guard of officers.
Kan conducted a restaurant for a
while at Livingstone, and Miss McCor-
mick was one of his patrons. Their
acquaintance ripened into love. Kan
disappeared one day and the girl fol-
lowed him to this city, where she re-
lated her story to the officers.
The Celestial was finally apprehend-
ed at POcatellO. Idaho, and returned tC
Butte. He dsclamed any intention OF
abandoning the young woman and pro-
fessed Willingness to marry her at
once.
To make his argument good Kan
said he was able to take care of a
wife and. to the surprise of the Off
GERS. he pulled about $4,000 in bills
from the bosom of his shirt. After the
wedding Kan purchased tickets for
himself and wife to Portland, whence
he goes to HOngkOng.
The friends of Miss Mccormick are
at loss to explain the girls strange
affection for the Chinaman. who is one
of the homeliest of his race