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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23

Mrs. o. NJ. Baker and daughter, Mary,
returned Saturday afternoon to Boston.
The annual election of officers of the
Odd Fellows will be held Wednesday even
ing.
The annual meeting and supper at the
Baptist church will be held Tuesday
evening.
The Bible depository or the Bible soci-
ETY. has been placed in the store of Mrs
l.. A. Gates-Hadley.
Ernest w. Parsons. inspector of ordi-
nance for Uncle Sam. is spending Christ
mas here with his family.
restaurant has been opened on Canal
street by E. f. Raymond in the rooms
formerly occupied by Meanys pool room
The ladies' Whist club will have a gen.
tlemen's night Tuesday evening at the
home of Mrs. f. f. Shepard, Hotel Wind
ham.
John L. Savage has bought the bakery
on Rockingham street from Chase e.
Wood.
The engagement of Melvin Bennett son
of S. l.. Bennett of Atkinson street and
Miss Adelaide Matthews of Walpole is
announced.
Daniel Edwards of the Bellows Falls
Trust company has moved from Mrs NJ
w. Davis's on Henry street to b. e. Mer-
RAMS on Front street
Mrs. Angie Vaughan is entertaining
her two nieces, the Misses Dascomb, of
san Antonio, Texas, who are students at
Abbott academy, Andover, Mass.
George Upham, a student at the In
stitute of Technology, Boston, is in a hos
pital, Ill with pneumonia. He is improv-
ing and hopes to be able to come home
next week
At the poultry show in Springfield,
Mass last week A. A. Halliday of this
place was awarded several prizes on Lang
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23
The New York Tribune Farmer.

the Tribune Farmer has no superior
anywhere in this wide world as a publi-
cation for farmers and their families. 1t
does not, to be sure, tell how to extract
green cheese from the moon. but every
thing worth knowing about the theory
or practice of farming is treated by men
recognized as experts in their various
lines. But The Tribune Farmer does
more than supply such information.
1t Keeps the farmer in touch with all the
latest improvements by text and pictures.
and pays special attention to the work be-
ing done at agricultural colleges all over
the country Besides all this II has fea-
lures to interest the women folk The
price Is VI year. For a free sample
copy send postal card to The New York
Tribune. New York.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23
MINISTER.

Carrie Lyman is at home for the Christ
mas vacation.
Mr. Nelson has sold his work horses
to man in Brattleboro
Miss Emma Reed is the guest of Miss
Alfredo Cloudman a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Arnold have re-
turned from their trip to st. Louis
Christmas concert will be given by
the Sunday school next Sunday evening
at the church.
Miss Nellie Wright of Somerville, Mass.
Is expected to come Saturday to remain
during the holidays.
Miss Bessie Leach, daughter of J. e
Leach, is seriously i'll. Miss Lizzie Ride
out is caring for her
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Miller will go to
Lebanon, n. H., today, Friday, to visit
Mrs. Miller's parents.
Miss Samantha Harris has made such
an improvement as to enable her to re-
turn TO her home in this village.
Mrs. ]. +. Ward will entertain the
Fortnightly club next Tuesday evening,
Dec. u. A musical program will be given.
Edna Wright of Boston is at home for
the holidays; also Margaret and Daniel
Wright from the Mortified and Mt Her
mon schools
Carroll o. Pease of Andover will spend
the coming weeks at l. C. Wyman's and
will go from here for a few days at ]. l..
Pierces in Bellows Falls.
"A Poverty Soshul is booked for Friday
evening, Dec 80, at the town hall Every
body is corgaly aXed to come and get
some Vittles. Dounots, coughy pye and
cheese, for the small som of s sents Wat
ter given away, Following are the Ruels
and Regerlashuns: Every womin what
kums must ware a poverty dres and
apern, ersomethin ekelly appropriate and
leave er poodle dorg to hum. Know gent
with billed shurt and dood koller will be
aloud to KUN, onless he pays a fine off
tive sents. A Kompitent Komitty will
lnterduse strangers an look after bashfuI
felers." A large number of fines for
both women and men who appear in finery
VIII be imposed. The above entertainment
Will be held by the Young Peoples Socie-
ty of Christian Endeavor.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23
How to. Win Premiums on poultry.

j. T. Uric of Craftsbury VT, was one
of the largest exhibitors of poultry at
the Lamoille Valley Fair at Morrisville
VT, and the large number of premiums
he won is indicative of the care and at
tention he gives TO his fowls. Poultry
keepers will doubtless be interested to
learn his methods, The following letter
from Uric & Sawyer, of which firm the
above named is "A member. will partly ex-
plain: " Pages Perfected Poultry Food
Is all that you claim for 1t and 1t is as
staple as graduated sugar or flour. Mr..
Uric, who is a breeder of fine poultry,
uses it in his yards all the year round
We would like to be agents again the
coming season."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23
West Townshend Mans Skull Fractured

George Sanderson, 49, whose home is in
West Townshend. sustained a fracture Of
the skull Friday while at work on the c.
+. Willis property on the Notch" road
a few miles east of Rutland. tree be
came lodged, and Sanderson and his com
panion. Levi Howard, were attempting to
move it when it fell suddenly. striking
Sanderson in the head. He was in a
semi-comatose state a long time and It
was thought that he would not recover
but his condition is now favorable. He
Is in teh hospital in Rutland.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-12-23

He-"Did you have to pay damages IN
the man you ran over?"
She-"No; fortunately it hammered to
DE my husband. '-lNew Yorker
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

mills have been obliged to stop. thou
sands OF operatives have been dis
charged and the wages of thousands
more have been reduced.
THE COST OF THE WEEvIL.
Eighty per cent of the cotton crop
of the world is raised by America. and
of the cotton raised in the United
States Texas produces nearly one
fourth. All the richest cotton counties
OF Texas have been invaded by the
weeyN. and the loss in cotton de-
stroyad by its depredatons in the past
summer has surely been as great as
$15,000O00.
Spuwed on by the high price of cot
ton ana by the prospective danger of
a great lessening of the American
crop, foreign nations are making every
effort to raise their own cotton. The
English colonies are particularly ac-
tive, and the German colonies. as we'll
Russia is also making every effort TO
push tie growing of cotton within her
territory. Other nations are doing the
same The trade balance of the entire
world may soon be affected if efficient
remedies for the pest are not discoy-
cred and used.
The weevil itself is an insignificant
creature, a little gray snout BEETLE
about quarter of an inch long, but it
breeds very rapidly, multiplies enor-
mously in the course of a summer and
works during the critical period of it's
life absolutely protected from any APP
plication which could be made to the
cotton plant.
Slowed away in old cornstalks, in
eiumps of grass, under the bark of
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

ed, we have, nevertheless, through our
intimate knowledge of the life history
of the weevil, found way to grow cot
ton in paying quantities in spite of
the destructive creature.
In the spring the weevils are few in
number; the great majority of them
have been killed by the long winter.
Comparatively few come out of hiber-
mating quarters in the spring to lay
the eggs for the coming generation. A
single female will have millions of de-
scendants by autumn, but these mil
lions are gradually developed.
1t was the old custom to pick cotton
in Texas until past Christmas, and in
late autumn the weevils are at their
height in point of numbers. If plant
ers use Northern cOttonSeed, the plants
from which develop much more rapid
ly than from Texas seed; if they plant
their rows a little further apart than
has been the custom, if they cultivate
the crop and force it to early maturity,
they will be able to raise a good guam
tity of cotton before the Weevils have
become so numerous as to destroy the
great majority of the bolls.
In this way, on experimental plots
aggregating seven or eight hundred
acres, in different parts of Texas, the
experts of the Division of Entomology,
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, have been able to raise
and pick, before the middle of October,
from two-thirds of a bale to a bale an
acre, whereas from crops not thus
planted and treated, only bale from
eight to twelve acres has been secured.
Then, after this amount of cotton
has been picked, the cotton stalks are
cut down or plowed up, left to lie for
a while until dry, and are then burned.
Very many weevils are destroyed in
this way. The few that escape have a
much longer period to wait before the
crop comes up, and many die. The
number which will be found on hand
to attack the cotton on these fields
next year will be very small The re-
suit is that more cotton can be raised
year after year.
Thus cotton can be raised in spite
of the weevil. But the weevil will not
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

be exterminated; 1t VIII probably con.
tinue to spreed. and it is altogether
likely that it will invade the other
cotton-growing States.
The work on remedies, however. is
still going on; TIE search for parasites
in tropical countries still continues
Congress will probably appropriate Mt
this session a large sum ot money to
help in the work, so that, although
the outlook is rather ad, il is by no
r.eans hopeless. and the prospect that
the United States will lose her SUI
premacy i'll cotton production on ac-
count of the weevil is. in my mind not
greatly to be feared.-Youth's Com
panion.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

to use both hands in stretching and
hammering instead of being obliged
to employ one in holding the tacks i'll
place as he makes futile attempts to
strike them on the head.
Any one VINO has gone through the
experience of hanging small pictures
IN high out-of-the-way places will also
appreciate the new hammering tool.
The mechanism is not complicated.
AS the illustration shows, it consists
of hammer, whose jointed handle
is so arranged that long row of tacks
is fitted into channel, which dis
charges them one at time in position
under the head of the hammer. The
hammer is magnetized so that the
Jacks are automatically held in place
until sharp crack sends its point into
the carpeted floor or other material.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

ginned at a place called Alice. From
Alice northward and eastward cotton
culture is continuous, and the weevil
spread at the rate of about seventy
five miles year from 1894 until the
present time. 1t has now reached prac-
tically to the northern border Of Texas,
and is OH the east within a few miles
of Louisiana.
During all this time the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the State Agricultural College of Texas
have been studying the insect and try
ing to find some means of fighting it
successfully. Eight Or niEe years ago
it could have been stopped and all
this damage prevented by abandoning
the culture Cf cotton in rather I'M
productive section. Or, if the planters
could have been induced to cut down
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

lllIIl X lIlIll Gus insects ever since there
@{Ig@ growers. - : W : -
1t would seem as if, after these many
years of experience, they would have
learned good remedies for every insect
pest.
They have learned many, and the
scientific men who are constantly
working on this very important prob
lem have found excellent economic
means to destroy the great majority
of injurious insects. But every few
years there appears some new insect
pest, which is so strong and prolific,
or which lives in such a peculiar way,
that it is able to do enormous damage,
to destroy millions of dollars worth of
crops, and sometimes to alarm more
than single country and affect the
relations Of many civilized nations.
A few years ago the San jose scale,
& minute creature which Injuries fruit
trees, spread all over the United States
and occasiOned the passage of edicts
and laws in many foreign countries by
which American fruits and fruit trees
were practically barred from internal
tional commerce.
And now another of these great in
sect scourges is affecting the cotton
crop of Texas, and threatens to spread
all through the cotton States. 1t is
partly due to the great damage which
this insect has done that the price of
cotton last year went up to almost I'M
precedented figures so that cotton
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
MAGAZINE
TACKHAMMER
AMachine That Operates on the Mage.
zine Gun Principle.

Patterned after the magazine gun is
the newly invented tackhammer that
has recently been patented at Wash
ington. The head of tie house who
returns from his office after a hard
days work and is assigned the delicate
task of putting down the parlor car
pet will unquestionably relish the pos
session of one of these latest improved
hammers. Besides not having to both
err himself with box of tacks, he will
have the added comfort or being able
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

Many as are the places in England
which have been the scenes of duels,
only one is marked. This is a part of
all that now remains of Cawnton
Heath, in Norfolk. on which stands Il
small pillar to Sir Henry Hobart, Bart
who was killed on the spot in duel
with swords.-Car
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
UNFOLDING THE LAW.

Magistrate mot long in the "coun-
try")-"Have you ever been here be-
fore. Have you ever been under ar
rest before?"
Offender-"No, yer Honor I've al
ways had great luck UP to this time"
Magistrate-"You are discharged;
but the officer who arrested you is
fined $50 for not arresting you BEFORE
Boston Transcript.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
ONE SORT.

"There goes Roxham. Every time
l think of that mans financial en-
barrassment it makes me yearn to
help him."
Financial embarras Sment?
Yes; he's got so much money ne
doesn't know what to do with it
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
MANY YEARS TO WAIT.

Poet-''I told her we would be mar
rieG when 1 received Il check for last
MSS"
Friend-"You should be careful. You
know you promisd not to marry for
many years yet"
Poet-'Dont worry. This matter
was taken by a pay-on-D publication
magazine. Chicago News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
HER OVERSIGHT.

He-''Do you know, dear, was just
upstairs looking at baby, and l be-
lieve she has got your hair"
She (springing up)-"Good gracious!
1 thought l had put that switch out
of the child's reachw-Yonkers States
man,
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
Ills FAULT.

Nodd-"On the impulse of the mo-
ment the other night l told my wife
an awful lie, and got caught
Todd-"Serves you right. Every lie
a man tells his wife ought to be pre-
meditated. Life. y
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
ME ONE OBSTACLE.

SIS there anything between you and
my daughter?"
Nothing but you"-Town Topics.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
AND NOW THEY NEVER SPEAK.

She--"I suppose if a pretty girl
should come along you wouldn't care
anything about me any more?'
He-"Nonsense, Kate, What do l
care for good looks? You suit me all
right" -Chicago Journal
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
SARCASTIC.

She-'He's awfully sharp-witted,
isn't hep
can't see them at all."-Detrolt Free
Press.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
THE BRUTE.

Mrs. Eixby-"Mother says that she
is going to die and join father"
BiXby-"I wish there was some way
to give your father warning. "-Towp
Topics.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

aud burn the cotton stalks in the fall,
it is probable that the insect would not
have spread, and would eventually
nave been exterminated.
All sorts Of experiments have been
made with different insecticide mix
lures and with many different kinds
Of machines The most careful stud
les have been made Of the life history
and habits of. the insect. Experts
have been sent to Mexico, to other por
tons of Central America and to the
West Indies as well, to study the in
sect in its natural hOme-for it is evil
IDENTIFY a tropical species-ln the hope
Of being able to find some parasite or
natural enemy which might be intro
duced into the United States with ben
eicial effect.
Is THERE A REMEDY?
Although no such parasite has been
found and although no poisonous APP
plication has been discovered which
will destroy the weevil, and although
no practical machine has been invent
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
IMPERFECT FACILITIES.

Mother-"Haye you taken your cold
bath yet, Willie"
Willie-"No, ma. There wasn't any
cold water warm enough. '-Chicag
News.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
WOULD NOT BE HANDICAPPED

The Lawyer-"I'm afraid I'm goinG
blind
The Friend-"Never mind, old man.
SO long as you retain your sense of
touch you'll be all right"-Life.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01
ODE T 1xf1r2.Y
II fde Of
life.
Hal

The hat of the average Panaman,
In most social circles would ban man,
But the sun, at the lsthmus,
Even on Christmas,
Would otherwise grievously tan a 2aan.
Puck.
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

~
grub changes to pupa within the
bud, and the full grown sweevil
energies soon after.
When such Of the flowers as escape
this first attack mature, and the cot
ton boil forms, it is also pierced by the
WeeviPs beak, an egg is laid, and an
other grub begins to feed on the inte-
rior of the boil destroying all the form
and changing to pupa and emerging
as weevil. In this way the insects
increase in geometrical ratio until, by
late summer, they occur in countless
millions; often hardly boil natures
AN INVADER FROM MEXICO.
A bale of cotton contains from $50
to 500 pounds, and in former days to
raise a bale or bale and a half of
cotton to the acre in the best parts of
Texas was almost rule Where the
weevil las made its appearance, how
ever, it is often difficult to raise bale
of cotton on ten or even fifteen acres
Of land.
The weevil came to Texas from Mex
leo, where, in certain places, it had
absolutely stopped the culture of cot
ton. 1t crossed the Rio Grande at
Brownsville, and was carried north
across a great extent of grazing coun-
try in cotton which las taken to be
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

$50, Mr.. Juggernaut, l hear you're
death on motors?"
"Well-er-now and then-but only
man-slaughter you know,"-Ally Slo-
pers Half Holiday
The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-04-01

tered places,
t h e weevil
p a S s es the
w i n t e r i.
Promptly a s
t h e cotton
plant comes up
in the spring
and early sum-
mer the wee
v il co m g
forth, fly to
the plants, and
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1904-04-09
OPPOSES HILLS PLAN
e. n. HARTMAN OBJECTS TO RAT
ABLE DISTRIBUTION OF Sc.
CCRlTIES STOCK.

st. Paul, April 5-A petition for
permission to intervene in the suit Of
: the United States against the North
ern Securities company has been
served by E. H. Hartman, Winslow s.
Pierce and the Oregon Short Line, as
stockholders in the Northern Securi-
ties company, upon NJ. D. Grover, c.
w. Bum and George B. Young, attor.
neys for the Northern Securities CON-
pany.
This action is brought by the plain
tits In order to be heard on the ques-
ton of the method of distributing the
shares of the two railroad companies,
the Great Northern and the Northern
Pacific. They contend that the dis.
tribution of the stock should not be
made ratably, as proposed in a cir
cular issued recently by the Northern
Securities company, although it Is un.
derstood that Mr. Hartman signed
the circular.
In their petition they pray that each
shareholder, or his assigns, who sold
shares to the Northern Securities com.
pany, should receive back from the
company the stock that he sold. Those
that sold great Northern to get Great
Northern and those that sold North
ern Pacific stock to get the same stock
back when a distribution is made.
f. H. Hartman is opposed to a rat
able distribution of stock because un-
der the system Of distribution as pro-
posed in the petition in intervention
he will secure controlling interest
in the stock of the Northern Pacific,
as he held the bulk of that stock.
The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1904-04-09
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COMMISSION WINS OUT
ANTHRACITE ROADS MUST PRO-
pucE CONTRACTS WITH THE
COAL COMPANIES.

Washington, April 5.-The case Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
vs.. Baird, commonly known as the
anthracite coal case, has been decided
by the supreme court of the United
States in favor of the contentious of
the commission, the decision Of the
United States circuit court for the
Southern district of New York being
reversed.
This is the case instituted before
the commission by w. R. Hearst of
New York, who alleged discrimination
by the railroad companies which
reached the anthracite coal mines in
Pennsylvania. During the hearing
some of the witnesses refused to pro-
duce certain contracts bearing upon
the business of the railroad companies
and the coal mines. which action was
upheld by the circuit court of New
York. The United States supreme
court holds that the contracts should
have been supplied. The opinion was
banded down by Justice Day,