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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

teaching agency equally injurious TO the Experiment
Station singular of the legislation enacted Mt
the Morrill, himself Vernonter, whose OBJ
jec himself expressed TO do something for the farmer
interesting that this policy has been carried out by
board half whose trustees appointed by the state order
the State Agricultural College The out
Illustrates small of control is vested In
Omng the $3.50 received from the interest
grant the after the expenditures made
engineering the and physical sciences mathematics economic
English themselves out of the derived from
federal government 4 to spend agricultural education
OF this spent botany and zoology which, although
college education agriculture would under ordinary
be provided by university maintaining college OF
and sciences other words of the total of $4,000 received
the trustees from the United States because of the
of the Agricultural College only $Sl spent otherwise
than would be the the Agricultural College existed elsewhere
That only this Of spent dstnctvey
agricultural subjects, such Soils horticulture farm
chney daryng animal huhandy and the like
been the policy the university trustees but it
policy that has been accumulated in recent Twenty
ago allotted only 1886 dstncve agricultural edu
but the annual appropriation from the United States
stood $4,000 This appropriation has increased the
twenty $4,000 but the allotted agcu
has grown by only $2,l05.
1t worth while to make comparison of the policy of different
institutions with to the of the annual federal grant This
is exhibited the following table of the disbursement of such funds
in 19112 In this table the University of Vermont and Rutgers
College the two remaining institutions in the United States
which the state agricultural college part of privately endowed
institution The universities of Minnesota Wisconsin, and Illinois
having strong agricultural schools in institutions
and controlled by the state and aided also by large state approp
atoms.
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

One need farther than this to understand the poverty
and deficiencies of the State School Of Agriculture Out of $530
received general chiefly agricultural education
there expended the agricultural school such S5S1 The
naming $4,000 spent subjects that the university would
teach had school of agriculture In word the appropriation
of general for agricultural education has been used
under the policy the benefit of the general educational
development the university and in the the Agricultural Col
lege college thus weakened there
effort help by turning the Experiment Station into
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1914-02-05

This expenditure the federal appropriations subjects other
than agriculture may be strictly legal The Morrill,
vde that realized under should be used the maintenance of
colleges leading objects shall be teach such branches
of learning agriculture and the mechanic and
the expression been universally construed to
engineering that although
to be the leading colleges this be without
excluding classical studies and this comprehensive
language followed the Second Morrill, act of August 80 1890
But consideration
show benefit agriculture primarily that these
appropriations authorized by the United States and
predomnany agricultural state certainly
the the University Of Vermont by their
present method expenditure executing the intent Of Congress-
serving the best interests of Vermont
of the the Agricultural College
appreciated by going back the history of its establishment
What has gone Vermont has large all
other states of the Union When the first Morrill, act passed
vdng agricultural education neither Senator Morrill, the states
themselves had idea of what Of institution be
developed for the benefit of the the farms In this legislation
the term mechanic arts played subsidiary part unques
ona intended at the moment to include only those elementary
mechanic that Immediately associated with farming When
however the states received the the practical question
what disposition should be made of the money the mechanic
arts assumed far-reachng The great
neeng schools had just been founded Engineering education had
placed upon sound scientific basis and curriculum the training
Of had been adopted that lent itself with the
end aimed the absence educational consideration
agriculture could be taught
the educational interests those upon
mechanic arts quickly translated high engineering
and that the side education oversadowed
agricultural grant institutions
s. o. Education. Report IL.
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street the political boss of Binghampton, a manufacturing suburb. For years he had voted the men like sheep, and he was proud of his autocratic rule. He had op- posed Gen. Gordon, my predecessor, and was now violently. but good -naturedly, opposing me.
 Mac he said, you won't get but four votes in Binghampton; there are 352 votes there altogether, and I'll poll the 34S I carry them in my vest pocket
 Wen see about that, Tom replied, with a laugh.
 And thereupon, relying upon that prin- cip1e of human nature I have just stated, I planned my attack upon Toms strong hold, where I was to speak the follow ing night.
 T got my crowd in good humor that evening with a few preliminary stories, and then electrified them by assuring them that did not expect their. votes
 that they could not vote for me, even if they wished to. for, no longer ago than yesterday, I told them, their fellow townsman had informed me that he carried all their votes but four in his vest pocket and they would all be cast against me. called for a show of hands from those whose votes reposed in Toms vest pockt et not hand I then called for the hands of the independent voters-and every hand went 'up
 And. on election day I carried Bing- hampton by handsome majority!'
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Strange Balls Found
 in Horses Stomachs

BALLS composed of millions of tiny ~ hairs from the crimson clover plant are sometimes taken from the alimentary tracts of horses. TEe formation of these strange felt-like balls in the intestines of horses is a singular instance of the some what rare cases where nature seems to have made no provision to protect her creatures against their common instincts.
 Crimson clover is an excellent forage plant. and all kinds of stock animals graze it greedily. yet if it is eaten in the full ripe stage it almost invariably re- suits in these felt balls. which are nearly always fatal to horses and mules Man, however, can control the trouble by feed ing the clover before it has become ma ture, when the small hairs are still soft and digestible.
 quite similar example of one of Dame Natures slips is in the sanding of horses in Florida and other very sandy regions Here animals in close grazing swallow considerable quantities of sand, and in horses this sand compacts into balls in the animals digestive tract which become cemented and as hard as rock, choking up the intestines and causing the death of the horse, accompanied by great ag- ony. There Is no known remedy for cases of either the crimson clover felt ball or for sanding.
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a around" observed Representative kent of California commenting on a recent contact with this briary little thorn along the congressional trail.
 Some friends from home. to whom l wished to show special attention. dropped in on me" he said "and I devoted my self to showing them about the Capitol They were keenly alive to the distinction of having their representative personally conduct them, and were profuse In their expressions of regard for my courtesy hence the situation was all the more embarrassing when. on seeking to en- ter the members gallery, I was fncon- tinently halted by a raw and ignorant assistant something -or-other and curt ly forbidden to enter.
 "Of course, it was all straighteneo out and the fellow apologized- But the damage had been done After that mis- erable little episode things were differ ent in that party. The paint had come off the doll and I could feel that they felt I must be small potatoes if an in- significant little whiffet like that didn't know who I was. You see, they couldn't get out of their back-home way of looking at a congressman. Back there, everybody knows him; even the boy who brings the groceries knows him by sight-and to find some one right here under the very domel
 And the worst of it all Is you can not explain to them that there are 400 of us right here; explaining would only magnify 1t.
 "So you just have to let them take home the memory of you-with the sawdust leaking out!"
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full of zeal. patriotism, inexperience and stage fright, to address the voters the sea of upturned faces seemed to hyno- tize me. My tongue went dumb; my mind was blank and not a word of that carefully prepared speech could recall.
 Suddenly, like the gleam of sail to a shipwrecked seaman, there flashed across my mind the thought that l could recite Lincoln's Gettysburg speech forward, backward, upside-dowp. I'd recited it at school a thousand times, I guess.
 Slowly and with just enough tremolo in my voice from fright to get the proper stage effect. delivered that famous ora tion. As I ended. the whole house broke into applause; I really believe some of those folks thought it was my own!
 Under cover of this demonstration I rallied my scattered wits and readily re. called my own speech. Then, taking a drink of water, I sailed into it and ac- quilted myself creditably-indeed mar velously, from that omnibus beginning had my audience only known it.
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a kindly, everyday man, wholly unaffect- ed and unspoiled by the greatness of his position-which is. itself. a mark Of greatness.
 "One afternoon. recently, there arose a situation on the floor wherein the ten sion between some of the opposing mem bers was high to the point of nervous ness. By some characteristic remarks. re- piete with that homely philosophy of his, Speaker Clark turned the situation and relieved the strain.
 "Struck both by the timely wisdom and the appositeness of the remark, l broke forth into several private but hearty chuckles. They, but not their cause, caught they eye of the Speaker.
 '.The next day, having occasion to leave the chair, he stopped as he passed my seat and. bending over me, asked, as though in confidence:
 Say. Farr. tell me the joke you were laughing at so heartily about this time yesterday.
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q TIE FAMOUS LAC STRETCHED ToR PRESEEXAT1ON WOJsK WyMN gA\ AT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION

the flags which have stood for so much in the history of this country. I would save them But how?
 
 NO one can know the love that went into my work. nor the Sacrifice My life became dedicated to my work. I gave up everything possible to follow my studies. If it had not been for my powerful love, 1t would have been abject labor. Four teen years I spent in making my work a profession. I studied flags, old and new. Most of all I studied our flag. I learned its meaning. From a mere piece of cheap bunting it came to repre- sent to me the greatest inspiration a country could possess.
 Just think what our flag means to us.
 Tt isn't the actual strips of bunting. nor the field of blue. It's what they stand for. What they have stood for all these years. Think of Francis Scott Key. standing upon the deck of that ship. compelled through circumstan nee to witness the bombardment of Fort Mo Henry by the British. Just think what 1t meant to him.
 He knew not whether the red coats were victorious or not-but by a single token. The Stars and Stripes which noated above the fort So he watched them-he made them represent the fate of the fort.
 Twilight came. and slowly, even they were plotted from sight What was happening? And then
 And the rockets red glare. the bomb bursting Gave proof though the night tha, our flag wss
 still there"
 Think of the agony of suspense be- tween those loud reports, and the con- sequent glare when, for single in- stant. perhaps. the banner of his land stood out against the inky sky. And then morning came.
 ''on the shore. dImly seen through the mIsts of the deep,
  What is that which the breeze OCT the tower As it ntfaIly blows. half cOnceaIs. half dis Now 1t catches the gleam of the mornings first beBm.''
 It was the hag-his fiag-trfumphant! McHenry still stoodi | Can any American today stand before | this flag without feeling something of | the suspense, the agony of hope which | was key'sZ Can any one looking at this | faded, priceless piece of bunting, fail to | realize what it represents; fail to feel a | thrill of deep, sincere love for this-the | emblem of his, of her, country. I think ! not! hope not.'
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courage and valor which ,have made pos- sihle the progress and achievement our nation has accomplished they are beyond valuation"
 None who hear Mrs Fowler can doubt the sincerity of her devotion to the flag. Her work, first started through the need Of preserving the banners, has grown to be labor of love-
 Nothing of mere ordinary quality is used in the preservation of the flags. For instance, flaw in the linen backing might result in making the whole worth less. Throughout the work countless points of that nature must be guarded against And in order to know just what must be avoided. as well as accomplished, required fourteen years study It de- manded an intimate knowledge of linen a study in itself. Not only the best ob- tainable, the linen used is of special weave.'
 Characteristic of the predomnating idea with which Mrs. Fowler has done her work is her reason for choosing the linen she has. It is Ulster, Ireland, linen.
 ''I choose it," she explained, flor the
 reason that there The production of the linen is not an industry so much as
 work of love. From the time the first sprouts of flax appear the Irish peas- ants love it. They tend it willingly, ten- derly. And when the flax is ready to be washed. it is accomplished by hand, not machinery Ulster linen is the finest l in the world for just that reason. I 1 want love to be the keynote of the en- | tire york;
 The preservation of the Star Spangled | Banner is not the first national flag | which Mrs. Fowler has lovingly secured l to future generations. But three years | ago, with a corps of sixty assistants, she performed a similar task at Annapolis, where she preserved nearly 150 banners,
 the flags in Trophy Hall at the Naval | Academy
 As interesting as the work itself, is the | way in which Mrs. Fowler came to take | it up. It started in Massachusetts and really dates back to the time when but | four years old she showed a decided
 ability with the needle. This fostered | along original, even daring, lines, made | her. in later years, one of the most ex. | pert embroidery artists in her state 1 Enter now the flag. Regimental flags | before Mrs. Fowler's time, were hand. painted. But, even though the finest quality paint was used, the silk would
 always split. Charles O. Eaton of Bos. ton, who for years made the flags oi | the Massachusetts regiments, determined | to find another way.
 | In Europe, the Japanese method o | embroidery is used, which makes it pos
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The Pope's Triple Crown.

.nRIGINALLY the tiara, or triple V crown, of the Pope was plain high cap. much like those in which doges of Venice are so often represented in old pictures. It was first introduced by Pope Nicholas in $50.
 Just when the first coronet was added is a matter of uncertainty. but the sec ond was placed by Pope Boniface VIII in 1925 and the third by Pope Urban V about 139S-
 It has been held that the three crowns refer to tho Holy Trinity. though that evidently could not have been the original idea for they would certainly have not been added one offer the other with an intervening period in each case of many years.
 Some authorities contend that they de- note the three-fold royalty of the Bishop of Rome. one being the symbol of the temporal power over the Roman states; another the spiritual exercised over the souls of men. and the third the authority over all the kings and potentates Of Christendom.
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TAG SIHT1lE or TIE ORIGINAL DRAFT
 OF TaT. SONG.

plique. This, too, failed. At his wits end. MT. Eaton began systematic search through the telephone and city directories for women doing embroid- cry. He literally stumbled across Mrs. Fowler.
 He explained what was wanted. She answered that it had never been done.
 He replied, he knew that only too well.
 "Give me ten days, and I will tell you if I can do it." she told him.
 At the end of that time she said she could. He hardly believed her, but gave her a chance to prove her statement To make a long story short, she sue ceeded so well that she made all the silken banners carried by the Massachu-
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seets troops during the Spanish-American war.
 So much for Mrs. Fowler's introduc- ton to working in flags One day she visited Memorial Hall, Boston, where, Mir. Eaton in charge. all the trophy ban ners of the state hung in splendid dis play.
 ''They are beautiful. wonderful" Mrs. Fowler exclaimed. But they can't last They are falling to pieces now They should be preserved
 how. how?
 'The insistence of that question, says Mrs Fowler 'rung in my ears long after had left the hall. How? I kept saying it over and over. And then it came to me. here was chance to do something really big. It would be tragic to lose
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Flag That Floated Over Fort McHenry and Which Inspired Francis Scott Key to Write "The Star Span gled Banner" Is Now Being Preserved at Smithsonian Institu- tion Mrs. A m C Ii a Fowler, a Boston Woman, Is Intrusted With the Delicate ask Interesting Sidelights on Her h. tricate Work.
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Wanted to Hear 1t.

Speaker Clark
 wins not only tho regard of his polit- ical enemies by his uprig htness and probity, but also their affection by the gentleness and simplicity of his n a t u r e, which brings him close to the heart of his fellow-man," said
 R e p r e 8 e ntative Farr, himself a republican. He is, above everything,
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A BuII's-Eye.

"The most abject slaves of a politi- cal boss will revolt if their slavery is f l u n g in t h e r f a c e s ' philoso- phized Representa- tive McKellar, who comes from the Memphis (Tenn.) district.
 ''I had a concrete example of that in my first congress sional campaign" he continued. "One doI- I At %L
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A Fallen Idol.

P erh a ps the worst of all the petty annoyances that beset a con gressman's path is to have some of the swarm of em- ployes about the Capitol fail to recognize him.
 And this, irri- tating at all times. becomes a source of extreme mortih- cation if any of your constituents h a D D e n to De
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Saved!

Although I'm a long g e n e r ation this side of Presi- dent Lincoln, said R e pr e s @ ntative Farr of Pennsyl- vania. "I feel 8 personal obligation to him for rescuing my maiden speech from disaster and turning it toward success.
 Ut happened at Mauch Chunk. and when I arose in the theater there,
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IKE another Betsy Ross, a gray-haired woman sits today mending an old American flag in the Smithsonian h. stitution.
 It no longer looks like a proud ban ner. Its bright stars" are tattered l; it's broad stripes are faded and vel
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lowed with age. Apparently, 1t is worth less ''old rag'-a bit of cheap. time stained bunting
 But yet the few folks who see it now, stretched out upon a table in the Smith sonian chapel" instinctively lower their voices as they pass, and none would lay upon it a profaning hand.
 For the bit of old bunting is sacred It is the flag which gave to the nation its immortal poem-'The Star Spangled Banner,'
 A hundred years have been swallowed into the maw of history since first that bit of bunting whipped proudly in the wind above old Fort McHenry-and gave proof through the night" that the old fort still stood undefeated.
 But when the colors of this flag began to fade from it's warp and wool they seemed to become an integral part of the nations patriotism and love. It's blue ever the symbol of fidelity-became the Keynote of the character of Americans anc American soldiery. Its red became symbolic of the sort of blood which not two months ago was shed freely and un- questioningly because of an insult offered to the banner of the free and the braye'' And so this bit of bunting has grown to be a national heritage: a priceless treasure; national brevet.
 It was Betsy Ross who gave to the in- fant republic its first flag.
 It is Amella Fowler, another of the sis- terhood of needlewomen, who is preserv- ing to all the generations of Americans to come its most cherished emblem. Betsy Ross made each stitch in her ism. charge upon the soldiers of the new country to go forth, to do their best-if need be, to die.
 Ana this other gray-haired woman, century later, is putting love and patriotism into her work, and a mes sage. But hers is message of peace Lest we forget
 No matter how carefully cared for Q flag will in time become but a mass of rags and tatters, be it in daily use or cherished relic. The fate of the real of all our priceless old banners-the fate of the priceless banners of the world.
 *
 For many years this flag has been ex- hibited in the main hall of the old mu scum of the Smithsonian Institution There under strong lock, and practical ly in view of the watchman kept ever at the door of the building during hours when visitors are allowed. this banner has lain. Reverently folded but a couple of its bright stars' and a touch of its blue field were visible If was too priceless to be displayed entire Yet the ravages of time did thefI work. The flag, despite care and love and reverence. literally disintegrated. And so it became apparent that ii future generations were to have the heritage of this flag kept for them in. tact it must be preserved and in such a way as to insure it from further de. cay.
 But how?
 0ray-haired veterans, who would will. ingly have offered their lives to save it were helpless. Scientists knew of naughi that would answer the purpose The Stal Spangled Banner lay untouched.
 Flags have been repaired long before thla. The ancient banners of the old
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sible to have both sides perfect. But in the case of our flags there was seemingly insurmountable obstacle. Eu- ropean flags invariably had the same de- sign on both sides On our regimental flags each side bears a different emblem. The Japanese method, therefore, was worthless.
 MT. Eaton started to find some one who could get around this. One woman took two pieces of silk, embroidered the emblem, and then sewed them together. The result was a banner too weighty to unfurl in the breeze. Another tried ap-
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