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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
Applying Preaching.

Deacon NJ. was an honest old codgcr, a
kind obliging neighbor, and good church
going Christian, believing in the Presby-
terian creed to the full extent but, ala TX
aday! this pillar Of the church was, at
times, little " shaky I'm fact, the dea-
con would occasionally get exceedingly
mellow" ard almost every Sunday at
dinner he would indulge in his favorits
cider.btandy to such an extent that it was
With some little difficulty he reached his
pew which was on the. broad aisle, near
the pulpit, and between the minister's and
toe village squire's, One Sunday morn,
ing the psrson told bis aock that he
should preach sermon to them that af'
ternooni touching many glaring sins that
he grisved TO zee 80 conapicuous among
them, and that'hs hoped that they would
listen attsntively. ana not Ainch if i:
should happen to be severe. The after.
noon came, and the house was full every
body turned out to hear their neigbbora
dressed down" BY the minister, who,
after well opening bis sermon, commenced
upon the transersssors in loud voice
with the Where is the drunk.
ard'T' A solemn pause succeeded TO this
inquiry, when upFose Deacon NJ, with
hi. face radiant with copious draughts OF
his favorite drink at the noontiie meal.
and steadying himself as wcll as he could
by the pew rail, looked to the parscn and
replied in piping and tremulous voice
Here am l"
( OF course CONSERVATION among the
congregation was the result of the honest
deaoon's response; however, the parson
went on with his remarks as he had writ.
ten them. commenting severely upon tie
drunkard. and winding up by warning him
to forsake at once such evil habits if he
would seek salvation and fee the coming
wrath. The deacon then made bow and
seated himself again
And now" 0ut-spoks the preaching
man, where is the hypccrite9"
A pau,e-but no one responded. Eyes
were turned upon this or that man; but
the most glaucss seemed directed to the
sauire's pew and indeed the parsOn seemed
3 to squint hard in that direction. The
deacon saw whero the shaft was levelel,
or where Il should be aimed, and rising
once more, leaned over the pew.rai to th;
squire, whom he tapped on the shoulder
and thus addressed ~
" Come, squire. why don't you get up
did when he called on me-"
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POETRY.
The w orld for Sale.
hi RALPH IioYT.

BT RALPH HorT
Ihe world for sale Hang out the slsn
Call every traveller here to mo;
Who'll buy this brave estate Of mino,
And set me Itom earth's bondage free
'Tis going l-ye-, mean to fling
The baube from my soul away
III sell 1t, whatsoeer 1t bring;-
Tie World at Auction here to-day
1t is e glorious thing to zee;
All, it has cheated me SO sore
1t is not what it seems to be:
For Sale 1t shall be mine no more
Come, turn It Ger snd view it we'
would not have you purchase dear;
lis going-goirg must sell!
Who bidsI Who'll buy the Splendid Tear
Here's Wealth in glitterins heaps of gold,
Who bids but let me tell you fair,
A baser lot was never sold;
Who'll buy the heavy heap. Of care
Aud here, spread out In broad domain,
gJodly landscape all may trace;
Hall, cottage, tree, field, hill and plain;
Who'll buy himself Burial Place!
Here's Love, the dreamy potent spell
That beauty fing. around the heart
know Its power, alas, too well
IT'S g,ingl Love and must part
Must p IT What can | more with Love
All over the enchanter's reign!
Who Il buy the plumeless dying dove,
An tcur OF Bliss--uu age Of Paiu
Aud Friendship gem Of e.rtb,
(Who e'sr hath found the jewel h.s2)
Frail, fck e, false and little worth,
Who bids for Frieudship--as it is
It's gcine-e,rg i-Hear the cali
Once, twice, and thrice Ills very low
Twas once my hope, my stay, my all,
But now the broken staff must goi
Ambition, Fashion. Show, and Pride
part from all forever new
Grief, in an overwhelming tide
Has taught my heart to bow
Poor heart distracted, an, so long.
And stll Its aching throb to bear
II W broken, that was once so strong :,
How Heavy, once 50 free from care.
No-nore ior rne life's ftful dream
Bright vision, vanishing away?
My bark require, deeper stream
Nj sinking soul a surer stay,
By D.sth, stsru sharif! all bersft
weep, yet humbly kis. the rod;
The best Of all l still have left
NY FAITH, NY BIBLE, AND III Cop
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Merchants Half-Dollar.


I'm sorry to say madam, that We
hall have no more work for you at pres.
cut. Money is so scarce that we shall do
cry lit in the way Of manufacturing
his fall. I will pay you what is due to
;ou, end if business revives towards
'pr ng, we shall need your services again :"
and tie merchant turned towards his desk.
Mrs. Forest took the money, and with
a forced tulile she thanked him and has
rned home to her children. a..r
"Oh, mother, did you get any money!"
sked the excited little Mary Forest, as
he met her mother at the door.
"Yes, my dear" replied the mother,
in quivering voice.
Pm SO glad!" exclaimed little viii.
lie, q bright boy Of hve years, as he clap.
ped his hands in delight, snow we can
have something to eat. Mary and / are
so hungry-but we were not going to tell
you 30 if you could not get the money"
d" Why, mother, what makes you cry?'
asked Mary, as she looked up into her
mothers face and saw tears there. "Now
you can pay your rent and we can have
nice supper" ~.of
II can have no mere work, my child,
and after my rent is paid shall have on.
ly dollar and half left. ... ...
Don't cry" said the sympathizing
little Willie, as he put his arms around
bis mothers neck. ave won't eat much,
only little, just SO we can sleep to.
night" 17
The childs sympathy was too much,
and the mother Jurst into food OF tears.
Just then a loud knock was heard at the
door, and Mary ran to open it, while Mrs.
Forest hastily dried her eyes.
".Ab this Is where you live, Annie
| began to think l should not find it up
four pair of stairs, are you ~ said large
robust-looking man, as he entered the
| room.
"Why. how do you do, brother Will
iam2" said Mrs. Forest, as abe rose ant
extended chair. r' 7e oTaH e'
"Qaite well, thank you--can't stop t.
sit down-called on business, Your land
lord came to see me yesterday, and say
you don't pay your rent, and he though
/ ought to see something about 1t. ! thinl
1t rather strange Annie, that o health
woman like you emit support herself an
her children"
I confess / had lot the money whe
he called but have obtained it to-aa
and it ia ready for him." replied the wido'
as the tears returned to her eyes.
a well, l wouldn't waste tears over
then if you have the money. pay til
rent. that's all that Is required Of you
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benevolent men of the times, be looked at
that half dollar and thought of his past
sel6shness, of his sisters sorrows, and Of
her generosity and kindness to him in re-
turn, and it had the desired effect of alike
conquering his vanity and awakening his
real benevoleuce afresh.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
NUMBER ~.
" Life is Real. Life Is Earnest. p

Tell mo not in mo1rnful numbers,
Life Is but an empty dream
Chickens in their oval slumbers
Are by no means what they seem
Life i. real, life is earnest %
And this shell is not its pen;
Egg thou art, and ees rernaines..
Was not spoken Of the her.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow.
II our destined end or way;
Bnt to'scrstch, that each tomorrow
Finds d. latter than to-day.
Art IS long. and time Is fs.tins,
Be our bills then sharpsnea wcli
Not like mufhsd drums be beating
On the inside Of the shell.
In the worlds broad field Of battle,
In the great barnyard Of life,
BE not liks tiie lazy cattle,
H.s rooster to the strife
Trust no hawk, however pleasant,
And get never heit,aidi
When the birds Of Prey were present,
You were 'kulkiDs in tile shed.
Lives Of old cocks ali remind MS
We can make our lives sublime;
Aud when roasted leave teh MI us
l,ird tracks In ths sand Of time,
Bird tricks, that perhaps another
Chicken dropping III the rain,
A forlorn and hen. necked brother,
When he sees shall crow again
Let.us then he after hatchirg,
With heart for every fatc,
Ever growing, ever scratching,
Learn TO carkle and to prste
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17


EXCELLENT DRIED BEKB.--A house
keeper sends the following recipe, which
she Gays she has used for many years, and
it never fails to make superior dried beef
For convenience, the beef needs to be
cut in strips before sailing. For one hum
drsd pounds of neat take two quartz Of
coarse or fine salt, and two ounces salt.
petre. Put these in large, smooth iron
kettle, and place it over the IRE until
quite hot; then add to It molasse., until
the mass resembles brown sugar. Rub
the meat, piece BY piece on al sides, in
this, keeping the vessel over The ers, i'm.
msaiste'y packing the meat IN { SUB or
jar. Turn the pieces over every other
Gay. It pesds no water, ss the salt and
juice Of the meat ere sufficient TO I'll al
the creviccs. After ten days, take out
the meat, rinsing it very slightly in water
and hang it up to dry, where il will no
freeze Meat thus prepared is very ten
! der. and hAs = peculiar delicious Asver.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17

Cas- eoDY EAT WITH EN- ?-An elder.
ly lady who was handling a pair Of arti.
acial plates In dental Office, and admir-.
ing the Ausncy with which the dentist de-
scribed them. asked him
d 81. .Csns body eat With these thingsf
q My dear madam, mastication can be
performed by them with facility scarce
ly excsued BY Mature herself" responds
the dentist. o a5J .-
/. Yes I know. but can body eat with
'sm ?" replied the female.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
He MIDDLEBURY REGISTER.

G @ 3 Il &c ME AID,
PUBLISHERS AND FRorH1EToRs
JrsTrs CpsB ...... ....... RuFus MEAD.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17
A SloDl Of CoMrurIsa ISrrRrsr.-

A SippI or CoMrurIsa ISrrRrsr-
Multiply the sum BY the number of days;
that product being divided by six, will
give the interest in mills; then strike of
the right hand figure. w.
u z * r0h 1ne zxAxPLR
S.o ,,s 200 dollars
IL days.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17

e)24oOt4OTcl cents.
Ifssven per cent. is required, add to
six per cent. It's enssixth.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-02-17

Q TEET MUSIC and Musical Works. reoeivss
- monthly freIa D. Ditson- 3. PARkER
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

Tne BooMERAxG.-T Tnis curious
weapon, peculiar 10 the natives of Aus
tr'tl'a, las often proved a puzz'et 10 mrn
ef science. 1t is a piece of carved wood,
nearly in the form of cre.cri, from
thirty to forty inches bong. pointed al h"'h
ends, aud lie corner quite shari The
mode Of usniny it is as singular as the
weapon Itself. Ask black to throw it SO
as 10 let it fall ut his feet, and away it goes
full forty yards before him, skimming
along the surface at three our feet from tie,
ground when it will rise in the air forty
or sixty feet describing curve and finally
Dropping Ht the feet of the thrower-,
During is course it reyolyes with great
rapid on apivo;, with u wliizzing noise.
, 1t is wonderful SO barberous people have
invented 50 singular u weapon, which
sets laws Of prog ression at defiance. /. *
very dangerous for All European To Try 10
project it 1T objecs s. as il may ic.urn aud
strike himself. In natives hand j, is u
formidable weapon, striking without the
! protector being seen. Ii WAS invented u
strike the Kangaroo, which is killed by it
with certainty.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

LAGEK BEER Nor INToXIcATING.-In n
late case before Judge DAILY, in New York,
testimony was offered to prove that lager
beer will not intoxicate. Jacob lass tes-
tilted That he lad drank one hundred and
siE glasses IL a dag, ind uds no intOricG
ted he Stated, also, that he had taken
twenty-five glasses before coming into
Court; he had commenced blinking at
half-pas: eight clock in the morning, and
had finished the twenty second glass just
before coming into Court at / o'clock,
and did not consider himself at all intox;-
Gated. The Judge asked him what, il
any. was the effect of a large quanli,y2-
He said il made him "feel ware coot aud
shleep ware veil" Several other German
Witnesses testified that they frequently
drank twenty, for'y, sixty, or even eighty
glasses ia a day. without being intoxica-
ted. One witness swore tha: he mad drank
fourteen glasses That morning; and another
SAID lie could drink four gallons n day,
without being i!itoN;eat,d ly |! IN thC
Least. -
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08
WHOLE NUMBER sa4
rnc WAY Lseompso.s = 20 DC Gns
ssSss.f ~ fkeA. ss ~ -

I The Washington correspondents Of ftl4sf
N. X s'kFchilig POST writing under da,e
of tho 9Th ults gives the followipgas ins
Idiea,iye of the manIser IN which tie resi-
dent nnd his Cabinet intend brinsiua their
ipower and patronage to bear 20 marc Kan
sas Slave S,ate:s ~ As4ss9
The Cabinet have had several sessions
during the past week. and at each have had
under ,nsideiation the Instructions to be
forwarded TO the five commissioners ap-
pointed under the lCvisierctFce Eeeomplvr
bill. Private Instructions haze uoi1ss 10
Goyeinor Delfef 70, cankass. the Tsriiiory
and aseertaia Mat the feeling Is for .aIlt
against Lecompton This Is done. no
doubt, with retclence TO finding out how
much, if any, outside aid is wanted to-
carry the bill. The Cabinet will undoubt-.
edly dictate to the Commission the timo
when the vote shall be taken. and llat
time will be fixed upon after Governor
Denver is heard from. have heard,
prominent citizens of Kansas express the
opinion that the 9th of October. the time
fixed for the election of the lower House
Of the Territorial Legislature, would be II
suitable day.
1t is evident from all the developments
making, that the administration will yield
to the demands of Messrs. Cobb and
Thompson in the Cabinet, and pour into
Kansas force sufficient to carry Lecomp-
ton by invasion and ballCt-box stuffing.
The Presidents order to Denver to eau
vass the Territory has this end in view
Thompson was the originator of the idea.
The whole machinery of tbs. Interior De
partment will be used to suijugate the
plopl, Of Kansas to Lecompton. The
"Union' of this morning has an article
pointing in the same direction. 1t declares
that the Republicans "hayc determined 10
make a dead set upon the people of Kan
sas to induce them to reject" Lecompton
This assertion is made against the fact, for
the purpose Of having some excuse for the
attempt of the administration now making
20 induce tho people to adopt Lecompton.
1propos of this, the "Ierald Of Free.
dom" OF May lst, published III Lawrence.
Kansas, which has given some laid and
comfort" to the administration in yai ious
ways within the last year, was ice, ived
here last evening. 1t appears that tle
news Of the Conference bill reached the
Territory. The Herald after giving a
synopsis Of it, utters the following sensi-
bic eonclusion; t'Of course, -rfle- whele
thing will be voted down by the pe.sj,it.
and We shall Fill back upon the Territorial
Government, which is in our Lands, and
will hereafter be welded for freedom
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

SNlvELrzArIpN. .-Whithersoever we GO
we meet with the sniveler. lie stops us
at the corner Of the street to entrust us
with his opinion. He fears that the NOR
ais and intelligence of the people are de-
stroyed by the election OF some rogue to
Office. He tells US, just before church,
that the Inst sermon of some transCcnden-
tai preacher has given the death-blo To
religion, and that the waves of atheism
and the clouds of pantheism are to deluge
and darken all the land, In a time of
general health, he speaks of the pesti'encc
that is 10 be. The mail cannot be AN hour
too late, but he prattles of railroad acci-
dents and steamboat disasters. lie fears
that friend, who was married yesterday,
will be bankrupt in n Year, and whimperS
over the trials which he will then endure.
He is ridden with AN eternal nightmare,
and cmits an eternal wall. Rccklessness
is II bad quality, and 80 is blind and ex,rav
agant hope; but neither is so degrading or
inglorious as inactive despair. -
We object to the sniveler, because he
presents the anomalyof a being who has
Ethe power Of motion without possessing
! life. His insipid languor is worse than
tumid strength. Better thata man should
rant than whine. The person who has no
bounding and buoyant feeling in him.
whose cheek never fushes at anticipated
good, whose blood never tingles and fires
at the contemplation of a noble aim. who
has noaspiratuu and no great object in life,
is only fit for the hospital or the bandbox.
Eaterplise, confidence, ii disposition TO be-
| Iieve that all good has been---these cons.i-
tute important elements in the clIalacte
of every man who is of use to The world.
1 We want no wailing and whImpering about
the absence of happiness, but str,u55
determination TO abate misery.--[ Whip-
! Pile.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

EH-A contemporary asks il the Young
ladies Of the presest day are fitted for
wives We think tia ma h N, re im9,rt-
ant question whe,Lcr tl'y,, a,e fitted fOr
LII, ,hnnls
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08
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Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

RoMAHTIc SToRY.-A curious circum-
stNnce has come to light lately, which has
caused the laugh to turn against the Aca-
demic. A savant member Of that respec-
table body has had in ms employment, for
a long time past, young Secretary, whose
services he considered So valuable in the
translations of the Oriental languages and
the colating of Oriental works, that, only
six months ago, he doubled his salary, on
the threat Of the secretary to leave for
another savan. Last Monday the secre-
tary came, all pcnitent and ashamed, to the
savan, 10 declare that his approaching
marriage would preventa continuance OF
his engagement. The sayan was IN
censel.
"And who is the accomplices of your
brainless folly?" exclaimed the savan, in Il
raye-being himself n confirmed old
bachelor, and most aferse to mar
riage.
Monsieur b, returned the
secretary, with litter, 'to whom I am
to be married on the 7th of this
MONTH"
The sayan looked up in alarm, and be-
held the blushing countenance and tEem-
bling eyes Of his secretary. The truth
flashed upon his mind at once the secre-
tary was a wonanl Aud SO it proves to
be- One who, with the knowledge OF
Greek and Latin, with seven eastern Ian
guages, could find no employment AS a
''learned female" and who Lad been com.
PEELED toassume the dress of the other
sex, in order to obtain livelihood What
makes the joke tell with even more sever
iIy against the sayan, is the fact that Mon
sicur B." the expectant bridegroom
is the very rival whose laurels have pre-.
vented his slumbers for fifteen years
Court Jo4rnaL.
Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-06-08

~ Sc.wHALBY. Surgeon Dentist. HunmeT - build
'sing 2nd Story, Rutland street Middleport D. All
operations pertannR TO the profession promptly por
- I3med. Ladvs waited upon ~ their residence. II
dSOvsd Dec. l6.