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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
William L. Winchester.

William Luther Winchester, IS, of
Holyoke, brother-in-law of the late Wal
ter ID. Stockwell, died at his summer
home in Marlboro Tuesday night after n
long illness with brights disease. He was
i'll when at the summer home a year ago,
but became able to resume his work as
collector for the Holyoke Water Power
company, which position he had held
more than 20 years. He was able to at
tend Mr.. Stockwell's funeral July ?, but
mad failed rapidly since then, his Illness
terminating in paralysis. Mr. Winches-
ter was born in West Springfield, Mass
He was a son of Reuben and Hannah
Brown Winchester. lie married Miss
Adeline Stockwell, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Denslow NJ. Stockwell of Dummers-
ton Hill. Mrs. Winchester survives with
two young children Mr.. Winchester also
leaves two brothers, Reuben c. and
Samuel Winchester, both connected with
the Holyoke Water Power company.
Prayer was offered at the house at $50
Wednesday and at 8 o'clock yesterday
the body was taken to Holyoke, where
the funeral was held al $50, Rev. G.. ".
Winch officiating. Mr.. Winchester was
a young man of the highest integrity.
He graduated from the Holyoke High
school and always retained a marked in
terest in that institution as well as in
the general progress of Holyoke. Re-
markedly well informed. no more enjoy
able companion could be selected
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
CROPS IN WlNDHAM COUNTY,.
Corn Has Seldom Been More Unprom-
ising-Potatoes Look Well-Grass
Crop Again Needs Rain.

This has been a season of extremes i'm
temperature and rainfall. Summer like
days through Il large part of March
were followed by an unusually cold
April The ground not having been
frozen and having been protected by
snow through the entire winter the soil
absorbed a large amount of water that
i'm ordinary season runs off on the frozen
ground into the streams. 1t was there
fore i'm excellent condition, and the
promise of good crops, especially of
grass. was never better than in the early
spring. Later heavy rains and low tenn
perature delayed planting and seeding.
cold rains and want of sunshine made
early planted corn, in many cases,
complete failure. Many fields were
ploughed up and replanted or seeded to
other crops. There are still few pieces
of good corn. but, on the whole, the crop
Is about as unpromising as we have ever
known it, Late planted corn was affect
ed by the drought which followed the
cold rains; it came up poorly if at all.
ana some fields of late planted corn
have also been ploughed up and sown
with japanese milet or Hungarian.
Potatoes have stood the unusual con-
ditions of the season better than any
other crop. They are looking well. 1t is.
of course. too early to predict what the
crop may be- but the promise is above
the average. on some fields there are
no bugs, and no Paris green has been
used.
The grass crop our main reliance. has
varied from the best of prospects to the
poorest. FOr about forty days up to
June Sth there was only fraction Of an
inch of rain. The normal rainfall for
this period should have been about six
intAes The grass on dry moving lands
was burned brown. and hardly a green
patch could be seen on acres of pasture
The prospect then was that the hay
crop would be insufficient to winter less
than half the live stock of the state.
ON the Sth OF June it began to rain.
The dense smoke from the burning for
ests that had obscured the sun for more
than a week was cleared away. The rain
| fall during the next Il days was about
I ten inches-nearly five times the normal
quantity for that length of time. The
entire landscape as we'll as the crop
prospect was wonderfully changed.
| There was a promise of at least an aver
age hay crop, but there has been l9
| days with only sprinklings of rain July
! 40; unless more rain comes soon all crops
| will be again suffering from drought.
| 1t has been bad season for the early
! small fruits. The strawberry crop was
| less than half an average.
| Apples are reported from different
| parts of the country at from 60 to 100
| per cent. of a fun crop. but as far as we
have observed the smaller figure is the
| nearest correct
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
WHEN E. c. CROSBY WAS 81.
Surprised by Greeting from Band
and a Reception Committee from
Springfield, VT.

[From the Springfield Reporter of July 1O.l
+. c. Crosby, of the firm of Crosby &
Coolidge, who are building the Spring
field water works, is getting along in
years, in fact, he is several years older
than when the railroad was built, and
every $50 days adds another
In order to properly remind him of the
flight of time and that he was 81. last
Tuesday evening NJ. y. Coolidge and \.
j. Crosby planned. what was the biggest
surprise party L. c." ever encountered.
The fiat car, No $. was gaily decorated
with flags and bunting, red, white and
blue lights filled with seats. and at
about 10.15 p. m. Tuesday evening started
from the hotel with at least fifty-seven
passengers. including lively drum
corps picked up for the occasion. COM
prsng Earl Perry, Perley Powers
George Washington Smart and Floyd
Warner. to meet the midnight express on
the Boston IL Maine on which Mr.
Crosby was expected. the trip over was
enlivened by martial music as well as
singing in which the entire company
joined--at times
Arriving at Charlestown ahead of the
night express, a line was formed and the
boys " to the music of the band -
marched up to Main street and back to
the station causing the denizens of Old
No. l." to wonder whether the Salvation
Army had broke loose.
Just before the arrival of the train,
NJ \. Coolidge +. b. Finn and George
o. Jenkins organized themselves into a
reception committee, while Allyn j.
Crosby organized the boys into line in
front of the fiat car. Alighting from the
train " +. c.. was seized by the recep-
ton committee, and his first thought
was. trouble at the water works. but
as the train pulled out and revealed the
drum corps, red fire, and the crowd VINO
gave three hearty cheers, he allowed
that the trouble was right at hand. He
was escorted to the ear and given the
- old arm chair " with Polk as left
hand supporter. and Judge" Finn in
front in charge of the hot air.
On the return trip a brief stop was
made at Sewers Bridge. where Judge
Finn, in a few judicious words. present.
ed Mr.. Crosby with the keys and freedom
of the city, Mr.. Crosby accepting with
thanks
On the arrival of the party at the
Adnabrown Mr.. Crosby acknowledged
the pleasant surprise given him by the
company.
The band played and then we all went
| home. 1t was unique affair, well
planned and carried out.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
BRATTLEBOR0 LOCAL NEWS.

Frost and Butler behind the bat the run
ners did not care to take chances. But
Ter is from Hinsdale and this was his
first appearance with the Union. lie
seems to be O. X. in every respect Cox
pitched a very heady game. Bean was
fun of ginger and sure of everything at
second. Young Reed at short had hard
luck on his first two chances. but after
that made good on 10 others, several be-
ing difficult. one of Riley's catches was
sensational. on the Wheel club side the
most noteworthy features were Waite's
catches i'm deep centre and Frosts work
both behind the bat and with the ash
Frost has not struck out this season.
He has met the ball square and hard
every time. and in safe hits ranks close
to the 500 mark.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
Modification in the Cattle Quarantine.

A recent special order from the depart
ment of agriculture states that " cattle,
sheep, ard other ruminants, and swine
may be shipped from states not in quar-
antine across the states of Massachusetts
and New Hampshire for slaughter or
other purposes, without sealing the cars,
subject to the regulations of the state
to which they are being transported
provided that said animals shall not be
unloaded while in the course of transport
tation across either of said states, and
shall not be confined i'm cars beyond the
limit of time allowed by law
at is further ordered that cattle,
sheep, and other ruminants, and swine
may be removed or shipped from either
of said states subject to the regulations
of the state to which destined, after hav-
ing been inspected by an inspector of the
bureau of animal industry, and upon
written permit issued by him, stating
that the animals are not affected with,
and have not been exposed to the con-
tagion of foot and mouth disease. The
hides, skins, hair, wool or hoofs of rumi-
nants and swine may be removed from
said states in accordance with directions
that may be issued by the chief of the
bureau of animal industry"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES.
One of Natures Queer Jobs When
She Was Long on Time.

And here are the everglades. As YOU
look out over them there is no limit but
the horizon. They stretch from ocean to
gulf There are 1900 square miles of
them. In every direction they seem the
same open spaces filed with sawgrass or
pools of water. clumps of small trees
hammocks they call them. Thus they
spread, SO | am told. from ocean to gulf.
and from the great Lake Ogeechobee
down to the tip end of the state. The
everglades are one of natures peculiar
experiments in Florida--for there was
much experimenting here countless ages
before men and women from the North
began to scatter superhuous wealth i'm
this direction. In those ages. when ma
ture was long on time. 1t had an old sea
where the everglades now are. and for
some reason II tired of the old thing and
concluded to fill ii up and take something
else. So 1t turned to and dumped into it
all the refuse of the watersheds or table
lands further north, the drift aluvium,
sand, leaves, logs. grass. muck. faded
lilies, WORKOUT alligators. frogs. etc.
And this hling up process was possible.
because of the peculiar formation of the
basin. Set saucer on a table and con-
slider the east side Of the table the At
lantic ocean and the west side the Gulf
of Mexico. and you Will have a figure OF
the old basin which was turned into the
everglades. The bottom is higher than
the surface of the ocean and the gulf. and
the rim OF the saucer. which is composed
of coraline limestone, kept the water
within until The flood of deposits coming
from the higher land Of the great lake
region of the state filled 1t up and forced
il over the sides. In seeking outlets the
T,N-a4r How inc 10
the Miami, Shook, Arch Shark and
others.
Instead, therefore, of being very low
swamp the everglades are some fifteen
or twenty feet higher than the Atlantic.
This feature makes drainage quite poss-
BILE. 1t is a matter Of money. and the
government seems to be aching to put
lot of money into bitches. once drained
there would be lands there with the
richest soil this side of Egypt, lands
which would produce vast crops of
sugar and early vegetables for all North
ern markets. II was during the first
days of March that l visited the fields
which have been reclaimed by drainage,
and | found sweet corn in ear and toma-
toes and other vegetables ripe. OF the
100000 acres of land covered by the
everglades il is thought that at least
one-third might readily be turned into
the most valuable of farms.
The only people now in the everglades
are the Seminole Indians; and they are
there for the same reason that the wild
deer are in deepest recesses of the forest
because they have been hunted to their
last hole-a sadly significant reminder of
the way in which the white man has
borne his burden. The official who was
sent among these Seminoles to take the
census three years ago found only 339
persons. But Bishop Gray, who knows
them better perhaps than any other man
in Florida, tells me there are about $50
of them, and that they are increasing
instead of decreasing, as commonly as
Advance.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
NEW ENGlAND'S OLD HOME
WEEK
Likely to Bring Many Back to Their
Native Sections.

Old Home Week " in New England
commences with the Bay States cele-
hration beginning the last Sunday in
July; then following New Hampshire,
Maine, Vermont and Connecticut in the
above order The Old Home Week cele-
brations comprise almost every town
and city Of consequence in these states.
and the wanderer VINO has not set foot
upon the Commonwealth soil for
number of years will renew again fond
remembrances, he will visit again the
old farm and village, the well-known
scenes OF revolutionary conflicts and the
familiar streets of busy Boston. New
Hampshire will welcome to her sylvan
hills her faithful children who have
drifted away. The White Mountains. the
beautiful Lake Wnnipesaukee. the silent
and serene Sunapee Will all tend to
bring back again youthful days midst
the beauties of the old Granite state.
The hot summer season is sufficient to
awaken the thoughts Of the doughty
son of Maine who anticipates a visit to
his native roof. He recalls the cooling
breezos of the fragrant pine forests the
beautiful beaches and pleasant harbors.
ana ne becomes convinced that a trip
Old Home Week is necessary Vermont
with her Verdant hills, her delightful old
farm houses and such magnificent lakes
as Champlain and Memphremagog rise
u
Nermonter. He compares in his mind
boyhood pleasures of a score or more
years back, and the delights among the
fields and forests of this beautiful state.
Connecticut with her beautiful towns
and villages and her very pretty cities
has attractions sufficient besides her
fra grant peach orchards and wooden nut
megs to win back the stray ones. Rhode
Island. small in size, but rich in resorts
has the gala Newport and famous Mar
ragansett Pier to set some folks think
ing, and many an absentee will return
to see again his old home on the sound
or some pretty farm house in a valley
town with an Indian name.
Old Home Week is the time to make
your visit. The Boston & Maine Rail-
road Passenger Department, Boston, has
published a very interesting booklet of
thirty-eight pages which gives an excel
lent description of each one of the New
England states with some beautiful illus
trations. This book will be mailed free
upon receipt of address.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
About Magnets.

Thousands Of years ago a mineral hav-
ing the strange power of attracting iron
was found in the country anciently called
Magnesia, in Asia Minor. The name of
this country has given us the word
magnet" This mineral. which is now
called the lodestone mot loadstone), at
tracted the attention of the curious, and
1t was discovered that a piece of iron
which had been rubbed with the lode
stone acquired the same power of at
tracing iron; in other words, the piece of
iron became a magnet. Magnets
are frequently made in the form of a
horseshoe or letter T. but a horseshoe
magnet is really nothing more than a
bar magnet bent As both poles will at
tract iron, it is apparently twice as
strong as when in the bar form. A
piece of iron laid across the poles it at
tracted by both of them. In this case
the poles act on opposite ends of the
iron and do not destroy each others eff
fects for each pole magnetizes the por-
ton of the iron opposite it, the iron,
therefore, becomes a strong magnet with
its north pole touching the south pole of
the horseshoe magnet. and its south pole
touching the north pole. This is popu-
larly called a " keeper" because it
keeps" or preserves, the strength of
the magnet, which becomes much
weaker when the keeper is left off.-[St,
Nicholas.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
Senator Vests Tribute to the DOG.

one of the most eloquent tributes ever
paid to the dog was delivered by Senator
Vest of MISSOURI, some years ago He
was attending court in a country town.
and while waiting for the trial of a case
in which he was interested. was urged by
the attorneys in a dog case to help them.
Noluminous evidence was introduced to
show that the defendant had shot the dog
in malice, while other evidence went to
show that the dog had attacked defen-
dant. Vest took no part in the trial. and
was not disposed to speak. The attor-
neys. however. urged him to speak Be
ing thus urged he arose. scanned the face
of each juryman for a moment. and said:
Gentlemen of the jury: The hest
friend a man has in the world may turn
against him and become his enemy. His
son or daughter that he has reared with
loving care may prove ungrateful. Those
who are nearest and dearest to us. those
whom we trust with our happiness and
our good name, may become traitors to
their faith. The money that a man has
he may lose. Ii flies away from him.
perhaps when he needs ii most. 4 mans
reputation may be sacrificed in moment
of ill-considered action. The people who
are prone to fall on their knees to do US
honor when success is with us. may be
the first to throw the stone of malice
when failure settles its cloud upon our
heads. The one absolutely unselfsh
friend that man can have in this selfish
world, the one that never deserts him.
the one that never proves ungrateful or
treacherous. is his dog. a mans dog
stands by him in prosperity and in pow
erty, in health and in sickness He will
sleep on the cold ground, where the
wintry winds blow and the snow drives
tercely, If only he may be near mis- mas
ters side. He will kiss the hand that
has no food to offer: he will lick the
wounds and sores that come in encounter
with the roughness of the world He
guards the sleep of his pauper master
as If he We're a prince. When all other
friends desert he remains When riches
take wings and reputation falls to pieces
he is as constant in his love as the sun
in its journeys through the heavens If
fortune drives the master forth an out
cast in the world. friendless and home
less, the faithful dog asks no higher
privilege than that of accompanying
him, to guard against danger, TO fight
against his enemies And when the last
scene of all comes, and death takes the
master in its embrace, and his body is
laid away in the cold ground, no matter
If all other friends pursue their way,
there by the graveside will the noble dog
be found, his head between his paws his
eyes sad, but open in alert watchfuness,
faithful and true even in death"
Then Vest sat down. He had spoken in
a low voice, without Il gesture. He
made no reference to the evidence or the
merits of the case. When he finished
judge and jury were wipng their eyes.
The jury filed out, but soon returned
with a verdict of $500 for the plaintiff
whose dog was shot, and it was said that
some of the jurors wanted to hang the
defendant.-lNashville American.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
THE UNIONS HAPPY DAY.
Beat the Wheel Club "a, a Bunch of
Hits in the Seventh Inning Doing
the Business.

happy day came to the Catholic
Union Wednesday, when for the second
time this season the wearers of the white
and green lowered the colors of the Yer
mont Wheel club.
The score shows more hits and fewer
errors by the Wheel club, but despite
this the Union fairly outplayed their OPP
ponents and won the game on it's merits.
The Wheel club batted safely in seven i'll
nngs and only three men struck out, but
the batting was desultory and did not
bring in an earned run. The Union had
10 strike-outs against them, failed TO bat
safely in four innings but the story of
their winning is told in the concerted
and concentrated batting in the sixth in
ming, when two singles. a double and
two triples earned four out of the FIVE
runs of the inning. Another earned run
came in the eighth inning on Williamson's
double and Stevens's single.
The Union men ran bases faster and
with better judgment than the Wheel
clubbers, and the fielding on the Union
side was faster. On the Wheel club side
there were cases of misjudgment which
were as costly as errors. In no game
this season have the Wheel club men
played with such listless, tired manner
Only three bases were stolen. With
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
A Plea for the Elder Men.

The demand for young men in this
country amounts almost to a craze, and.
as a consequence, men who are begin
ming TO show age frequently find it diff
cult 10 secure employment. They may
be vigorous in mind and body, but If
they have gray hair and wrinkles they
are at a discount in the business world
and at a sad disadvantage. Experience
and accumulated knowledge and fidelity
seem to count for little against youthful
vigor, The old men are cast aside like
old garments, and the man who has
failed to lay up for his old age a bounti-
full store is in a pitiful condition. The
whole thing is wrong. OF course, the
young men should have a chance, but
the old men should have a chance also,
and we believe that this generation will
be held to account for it's merciless
treatment of those who have grown old
in faithful service.-[Richmond Times
Dispatch
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
TO SNUFF VOLCANOES.
Startling Discovery Made by An
Australian.

Volcanoes can easily be extinguished,
says the New York Herald. A New
Zealand man claims (and there are
many who agree with HIM to have
discovered liquid by means of which
volcanoes may be extinguished quickly
whether active or threatening.
Many diseases of the human body
act in the same manner as volcanoes.
Dyspepsia, Rheumatism, Kidney Dis
orders, Female Diseases and many
others all begin with a slight rumble
of pain and distress, and if not treated
in time will burst forth in all their
fury, causing all who are so afflicted
the most intense suffering and making
life complete burden.
That a liquid has been discovered
that will extinguish these volcanic
eruptions of disease, whether active or
threatening is not only certain but a
material fact.
DR.. DAVID KENNEDY'S FAVOR
TIE REMEDY is this liquid discovery.
THE WONDERFUL CURATIVE
powers of this famous remedy have cut
a new path through the field of medi-
cine, sweeping with it a startling
record of tremendous success.
Druggists sell it in Now SO Cont Sire
and the regular 90 size bottles.
Sample 6otfie, enough for trial, free BY mail
DR.. David Kennedy Corporation, Rondout, N. Y.
DIR. David Kennedy's Magic Eye SaIve for all
diseases or infiammAtlOns Of the Eye. 25c.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-07-17
Rise and Fall of Rutland Railroad
Stocks.
[springheld Republican.l

1t was Nermonter who raised the
Rutland railroad into some prospect of
becoming a link in a trunk-line system
and New Yorker of Vanderbilt connec-
tions who has let it fall back again into
the position of a local property. Posi-
bly,, however, this was its immediate des-
tiny in any case. Percival w Clement at
least made the trunk-line prospect look
bright enough to make possible the sale
of his controlling interest at a good
figure, and 1t was neither a widow nor an
orphan who got the other end of the bar
gain. Rutland preferred stock had then
come to pay per cent. dividends, and
was selling as high as lbs for a brief
time. Doctor Webb obtained control by
buying some 10000 shares at from 10 to
III. The stock has now fallen into the
Notwithstanding class, and sells I'M
der go while Doctor Webb is in Europe
trying to recover his health. Even as an
investment looking to the governorship
OF Vermont, 1t cannot be regarded as
particularly fortunate, and in any other
light 1t is proving painful to somebody.