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FOR SALE.

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29

DRINCE ALBERT FROCK COATS. with Va SITS
= topafch. Beautiful pattern for $40, at 10ll
PenLsl lyAnia avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29
LOST AND FOUND.

i OFT On 9th instant, Bat and Tau CHIP
IL lbt raj reward will be given IL re- ~
turned to No. S2l l0.h street n. W. It, A
I LSr-In the Northern Liberty Market, or on
street. between 5th and Sd. Gold Ena need
BRACELET. The foder will be rewarded By
leaving IL 1t $40 street northwest. IT.
I OST-S5O-On 7th ,treet, near the Saving.
IL Bank, q FIFTY-DOLLAR BILL, by an EN-.
ploye Of The postal service. The finder Will be re-
wsrded b. leaving with Mr.. TURPIN, Superinten-
cent city Post Office. 1t
GSn REWARD-stolen on Wednesday, May
SCV 18th, from 33s Pennsy lvania avenue, by
party giving bis name as HEHBY HDWARD, Q
BLACK LEATHEB VALISE, and sfters ard lost
by him containing papers Of NO slue only to the
owEer. The above rev ard will be paid to any par
ty returning the same to W. DALTON, 33S Penn
sylvapia avenue, on or before Wednesday. May
Sjet, and no questions asked. my26 ST.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29

MONEY TO LOAH.
e4s,00o TO loan on choice real estate. IN Sums O.
from eSD to 81 tv0. at 3 ard 10 per cent Interest
A few sUms Of per cent. IN from o. OCe 20 oz,yoo
B. II. WARNER,
paru corner 7th and streets,
Sou PRIVILEGES PAYS LARGE PRoFfTs.
WTi;s iGT q Psse book Men and IdiOns Of wsii
JOHN HICKLlN9 co.,
oct7-ly Bankers and Brokers, ~ broad way, NY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29

NBE OBIENTAL SILK WORSTED SUIT for
SO Is most dressy out this season, at A
STRAGS'
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29

THE GREAT BIT OF THE SEASON "A
Linen Dnster, very lorg AID nicely made, for
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-05-29

LOB RENf-Fev fhe SxmmsY-A Rurnishe
= BOUsB; mon tnal rent. Apply ~ the Ste
once. my16-3s
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
"Thay Amen, and Thit Down.

Unfortunately for the Sunday schools,
there are number OF midele.aged gen.
tlemen, who, thinking themselves endow.
ed by nature with oratorical ability, vis-
it Sunday Schools to display their speech.
making qualities. These gentlen. are
very properly termed Sunday School
bores, for thoy bore the children, boro the
superintendent, bore the teachers and
bore every person with whom they are
thrown 10 contact.
One Of these gentry had round of four
OF five schools which he visited regularly
and as each regularly bored, ending hi,
orations invariably with Amen |"
Visiting one Of the schools during his
regular rounds, he made his appearance
at the superintendent desk, who great
ly annoyed, yet out of courtesy, asked
him If he desired to say few words tc
the school.
"Wa'al, yes, I'll say just a word OF
two 7" and Strengthening himselfup, with
ono hand on Tho cerner of the desk and
the other feeling for pins at the bottom
,f his vest, he begun: "Wa'Al chil'un
the superintendent wants me to speak tc
yer" And feeling vigorously for pins
Meow, what shall l say-wbat shall
talk ebout7'
A brigh little fellow. about four years o.
age, sitting 10 the front seat, who evident
ly had beard the orator before, jumped te
ais feet, and lisped out loud enough to be
heard all over the schoolroom
"Thay Amen and thit down." Th,
speaker collapsed
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
Making Calls.

Making calls is 10 general one of the
thankless and unsatisfactory duties of
civilized life. Of course neighborly
calls, and those of friendship, which have
some of the characteristics of visit, and
none of the embarrasments Of fine clothes
and slight acquaintanoesbip calls 10 par.
lors whore We are almost as much at
homo as under our own rooftree, where
we are at liberty to remark upon new
picture or knick-knack, where we may
cir our opinions with the certainty that
they will not be repeated or misunder.
stood, where We may oven expose our ig.
norancos without losing esteem calls up.
on people with whose aims and objects
we arc familiar, with whom we have
many things in common, whose methods
Of thought and motives Of action are not
all guoss.work to US, who we know with
mathematical certainty are glad to see US,
who are not our critics, and who do not
sit upon the defensive throughout our Wis.
it, as if we had come with the intention
of spying out the nakedness of the land,
OF probing tho family wounds, and wrest.
ing from them the family secrets-these
offer brilliant compensation for some of
those imposed upon us by sooiety,or duty,
or circumstances. There are people,
however, who seem to have been born
with decided genius for the work, who
keep their acquaintances inconst ant debt
to thom, who are always unearthing old
school mates, and fertile in inventing
pretexts for calling upon high and low,
while no stranger within their gates but
receives the benefit. To this class usually
belong those who, having no children or
household to heed, arc not obliged to
struggle for livelihood. 1t consists prin-
cipally Of well.to-do widows and spins.
ters, who, having been defrauded out of
family life of their OVID, lovy a tax
upon that of othcrs-in short, Of folks
fond Of cheap, easy, and not unwholesoms
excitement, No doubt this propensity
has its valuable side, arising as it does
from the social feeling in which many of
US have no leisure to indulge ourselves.
ln the mean time, to most of US mere GER.
emonious visitingis task wholly uncon.
genial. What is achieved, We might ask,
by spending fifteen minutes twice or thrice
a year with people to whom We grow no
nearer during a lifetime with whom We
have only time to touch upon the weather,
the fashions, the servants, or other tri.
vialities who neither interest, amuse,
Bor instruct US? A call should naturally
signify ap.oot Of interest, whereas it is
often only polite fiction, hollow cour-
tesy. Perhaps some of the most disagree.
able people to call on arethose who remind
us of our delinquencies 10 this respect,
with whom, II was afraid you had for.
gotten the road here" or "Do let US see
you here before the next centennial, !"
are current phrases, savoring more OF
good will, it may be, than good taste
while those who entertain US With family
jars, with accounts ofthe family digestion,
who apologize for untidy toilets, and
whose conversation suggests tho game OF
"tweuty questions" renders the dne art
OF making calls more or less OF bore.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

He promised eagerly, and the mex
minute | was in the street, running to the
nearest cab.stand.
was just in time 10 catch the carly
morning train, aud half mad, half Joyous
| sat impatiently there till the train
dropped mo at Burnley, where the fly
slowly jolted me over to tho Four Mile
farm.
1t was q bright, clear. frosty morning
and tho sun glanced from the river upon
the trees, but could think of only one
thing as l kept urging the driver on, and
he must have thought me mad as l leaped
out and rushed into the well.known par.
lor.
"Katol" | cried, as half blind l ran
towards a pale face lying back in an easy
chair by the fire.
"You scoundrel!" !" was roared at the
same moment, and the sturdy farmer had
pinned me by the throat.
"Yes,:. ,:.all that" | said ; "only hear me. -
His hands dropped as Kate uttered O
low cry and tainted.
"Quick J" | said, "water and some
brandy"
With low growl of rage my old pa.
tient for gout obeyed me, and in iew
minutes. Kate opened her eyes to look
full into miue as her head rested on my
arm.
Have you come to say goodbye p
she said ieebly; and there was such a
look Of reproach in that poor, worn face,
that could only answer in whisper:
mo, no-to ask you to give and bless
me with your love; to ask you to forgive
me for my cruel weakness, for must
surely have been mad"
A deep groan made me turn my head,
to see that tho farmers head was down
upon his arms, aud his broad shoulders
were heaving deeply.
81 thought you would never come
again. said Kate. feebly; but l never
gave up hope."-CasseUs Magaziae.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
TOrgenief's Parable for Eng.
land.

The Nation publishes a translation Of
the Paris Figaro's version Of a poem by
the novelist Torgenieff which, accord
ing to the Figaro, "has recently been re.
cited before the czarewitoh, and has OBJ.
tanned rapid popularity in Russia. Ii is
follows:-
The queen is sitting in her forest at
Windsor around her the ladies of her
court play at game which not long
since came into fashion--a game called
croquet. You roll little balls, and you
make them pass through little hoops. The
queen looks on and laughs; but suddenly
she stops; her face grows deadly pale.
1t seems to her that, instead Of shape.
ly balls driven by the slightly tapping
mallet; there are hundreds of heads roll.
ing along, all smeared with blood.
Heads Of women, Of young girls, Of chill.
dren; faces with marks Of dreadful
torture and bestial outrage, of the claws
Of beasts, and all the horrors of death.
paags.
And now the youngest daughter of the
HuoSns bSutic tnhiueui puSn63 one oil
these heads further and further from the
others. pushes it until it reaches her
mothers feet. The head of a child with
curly hair ; its little livid mouth turns to
murmur reproachos. The queen utters
a shrek Of horror; an iueffable terror dark.
ems her eyes,
MY doctor, quick, quick. let him come
to me2 And she tells him her vision.
But he then answers; 1t doesn't surprise
me; reading the newspapers has disturbed
you. The Tires explains to US so we'll
how the Bulgarians have deserved the
wrath of the Turks. Here is a draught
take it and the troublelwill pass And
the queen goes back into her palace.
She is alone, and she begins to muse.
Her eyelids tall, and-oh horrors, the
edge of her garment is befouled with q
bloody stain. Let them take it away this
instant-I wish to forget it. Wash il
for me, rivers Of England = No, your
majesty, never shall tho royal robe Of
England be washed of the stain of TIL:
innocent blood ="
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
Cowardly Assaults.

When candidate for high Office is 50
well liked and 80 popular With the masses
as to make his defeat difficult 10 fair
and honorable 6gbt, mean aud cowardly
men are not wanting who delight in man.
ufacturing lies and slandering his good
name. There arc also those who prosti.
tate their honor ,pervert truth, and ignore
right. for the sake of ipjuring a competi.
tor ia business, whose prosperity they
envy, and with whose business capacity
they have not the talent to successfully
compete in an honorable way. These
thoughts are suggested by the mean,
cowardly attacks made upon me and my
medicines, by those who imagine their
pecuniary prospects injured by the great
popularity which my standard medicines
have acquired, and the continued growth
OF my professional practice. Narrow.
minded practitioners Of medicine, and
manufacturers of preparations which do
not possess sufficient merit to successfully
compete for popular favor, have resorted
to such cowardly strategy as to publish
all sorts of ridiculous reports about the
composition Of my medicines. Almanacs,
"Recsipt BookG'nand other pamphlets,
are issued and scattered broadcast over
the land, wherein these contemplate
kuaves publish pretended analyses Of my
medicines, and receipts for making them
Some Of these publications are given
high-sounding names, pretend to be issued
BY respectable men of education and DO.
sition, for the good of the people-the
more completely to blind the reader
to the real object in their circulation,
which is to injure the sale of my medi.
cines. "The Popular Health Almanac"
is the .high.sounding name of ono of these
publications, which contains bogus re.
ceipts, without grain of truth. Not
less devoid of truth are those which have
been published by one DR.. L., of Detroit.
in the Michigan Earwer, and by other
manufacturers of medicines, in several So
called journals Of Pharmacy. They are
all prompted by jealousy and utterly fail
in accomplishing the object of their au.
thors, for, Notwithstanding their free cir.
culation, my medicines continue to sell
more largely than any others manufact.
ured in this county, and are constantly
increasing in sale despite the base lies
ooncocted and circulated BY such knaves.
The people ind that these medicines pos.
sess genuine merit, accomplish what their
manufacturer claims for them, and are
not tho vile, poisonous nostrums which
jealous. narrow minded physicians and
sneaking compouuders Of competing med.
icincs represent them 10 be. Among the
large number Of pretended analyses pub.
lished, it is a significant fact that no two
have been at all extraordinarily prov.
ing the dishonesty Of their authors. 1t is
enough for the people to know that while
thousands, yes, may truthfully say nil
lions, have taken ny medicines and have
been cured. no ono has ever received in.
jury from their use. 4. V. Pierce, NJ,
d., Proprietor Of Dir. pierce's Medicines,
Worlds DispeDsary, Buffalo. N. Y.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
Keep thy Heart with all Dill
igence."

All persons havo committed 10 their
keeping precious jewel which they can
watch over and keep safe from all which
may deface aud ruin, if they make the
proper effort. This jewel is the heart
out of which springs all the good or bad
which We see in the world, IF you com.
nence to use bad words or do bad things
it will soon be deiaced. Ita beauty fades
and its purity vauishes as soon as the
thoughts aud words begin TO be evil
1t does not beaome hard anl defaced
all at once. The proiane oath or the use
of tobacco is usually among the first steps
to ruin. The road then 10 easy and the
travelling fast. It is all down hill. These
lead to lying, gambling, and drunkenness,
The fret step leads to the second, and
when once the feet are turned iolo wrong
paths the final ruin comes quickly. We
Know many young man who started out
with light step, warm, pure heart. sui
excellent prospects, who has been ruined
By bad practices and evil companions
Young man, if you have entered tha
downward road, stop and think before
you further go. Which heart viii you
have? If you take God for your por-
tion, and love him, all the other graoes
will be added to you.
Purity, love to man, temperance, eto.
will be inscribed upon your heart in such
plain letters that all with whom you como
10 contact will see it in oil your actions
"Keep thy heart with all diligence, for
ou. Of it are tho issues Of life."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
Warning Against Wine.

Solomon never said q truer word than
what he says about those who tagry long
at the wine. The questions asked b.
him, "Who hath woe? who hath sorrow
who hath contentious? ? who hath bab.
bling2 who hath wounds without cause
who hath redness o the eyes ?" arc o.
only answered BY Solomon himself, bu,
we fnd his answers verified every day
that we look into the news Of the daily
papers; while around US. On every .ilc,
in the street, we may see living Witnesses
to the truth of what Solomon says
Many whom l meet with, who nave
become slaves to strong drink, say, "OS
tina, [ had never commenced to drink
but now ] have no power; and drink is
stronger than my own will, stronger than
my love for my wife and children
stronger even than my wish for heaven"
May the dear children be kept from
ever touching wine, or any drink that
will intoxicate, SO that they will be 10 no
danger of tho terrible consequences that
follow those who "tarry long at the
wine -
Remember, that those VINO are drunk.
ards did not intend to become so they
only thought Of drinking just 4 little !
but the little kept increasing, and the
love for drink kept growing stronger, until
the eyes grew rcd, aud tho step grew un-
steady, until the one who might have
been blessing to the world uDd help
to those around him, has become 4 loath.
some object, and terror to his friends
1t is not safe to take even littla strong
drink; because tho love for it soon be-
comes q strong aud cruel master.
War is terrible, and many of our best
men have gone to their graves through
war but strong drink has carried more
victims to the grave, in America, than
has war.
Again, | beg of the young to touch
not, and taste not any strong drink,-D.
L. Moody.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
A Curious Calculation.

A rapid penman can write thirty
words in a minute To do this he must
draw bis quill through the space of rod
sixteen feet and a half. In forty
minutes his pen travels a furlong and in
five hours and third, a mile. We make
on an average, sixteen curves or turns o!
the pen in writing each word. Writing
thirty words 10 minute, we must make
four hundred and eighty Y.elght to each
second in an hour, twenty eight thousand
eight hundred in day Of only five
hours, one hundred and forty-four thou
sand and in year of three hundred
days, forty.three millions two hundred
thousand. The man who made million
strokes with pen 10 month was not si
all remarkable. Many men make four
million. Here we have in the aggregate
a mark three hundred miles long, to be
traced on paper by each writer 10 year
In making each letter Of the ordinary al
phabet, we must make from three to sew
en- strokes Of the pen--on an average
three and half to four.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09
WOMANS TEMPERANCE COL
UMN.
To Our Young Women.


Young women Of to-day! the solemn
duty, the glorious privilege, rests with you
70 redeem the young men Of our country
in your companionship from the dreadful
danger, and save yourself from sharing its
heaviest part You hold the heartstrines
Of our young manhood. You can WELD
power greater, perhaps, than fathers
teachings or mothers tears. Oh! use it
for God use il for purity and temperance
and abstinence; Of those In danger, warn
them SO that they may know that YOU are
watching to sec if they love sin more
than you.
l. Don't trust your hearts affection with
man who is at any momeat likely to
yield. to the lowest temptation and surreud.
er his manhood. Don't trust your ten.
der love to a man who cannot control
even the grosser appetites and passions,
but will risk bis own health and happiness
for the idle qualification of vicious pro,
pensitY. Don't associate with a young
man who drinks. These are tho mega.
tives; the positives arc 90 to work &C.
lively to save; dissuado young men from
doubtful courses which may lead to sin
kindly and tenderly reach forth and save
the falling. Perhaps they are even wait.
ing for the token Of loving anxiety or the
word Of tender rebuko that tells them
that some one cares for their souls. Per.
haps they are even now ashamed of their
evil ways, and ouly need the power of
some beloved voice to win them back to
purity and peace. There is greater pow.
er, it wisely used, in the soft entreaty Of
faithful love to turn the scale Of resolution,
than in the taunts and sneers Of profi.
gate companions 1; is q power delicate
but mighty, like the sunshine use i. for
God and temperance chido and rebuke
in love as well as entreat and persuade.
Induce your female friends to do like.
wise, and help them, and you eau soon
form social sentiment aud power against
intemperance which will crush the demon
in q year. Make the social atmosphere
of your homes SO pure that drunkenness
will be ashamed to enter there. Oh
here is service which will make life
glorious, dignity womanhood, and glorify
God.
Dare you do it2
Ask Gods blessing ard guidance, and
begin to-day, and in his mighty power 20
forth conquoring and to conquer. -Ex.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

81 took the pledge" said an old man,
tat the foot of the gallo6s, when [ saw
young man hung The sheriff took out
his watch and said, "If you have any
thing to say, speak now, for you have
only 6ve minutes to live" The young
man burst into tears and said, II have to
die ! had only one little brother he
had beautiful blue eyes and aaxen hair
and loved him. But ono day got
drunk, and coming home, found him
gathering berries ia the garden, and be-
came angry without cause and killed him
with one blow OF the rake. Drink hes
done it-it has ruined me l have but
one word more TO say-Never NEEER
NEVER touch anything that can iutox
icate'."
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

Mr.. Philip Hamerton claims that the
rocking chair is not . Yankee invention,
but had its origin in Lancashire. These
Englishmen will soon seek to rob US Of the
credit of having invented baked beans and
dsh balls
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

There was little gathering the other
evening, and some one asked Preston
man il he wasn't fond Of Mendelssohn.
He said he was passiouately; but unless
carefully cooked it always disagreed With
him.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

+ LEAM0N's DYES COLOR SILKS. WOOL.
IL ems, cottonsi color anything. Druggists sci.
them: book giving full and exploit directions
fors, RrIaA, RICHARDSON 4 Co., Burlington, VI
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

Oliver Cotter. the converted saloon.
keeper, is stirring up the law. breakers 10
Brooklyn. He has just secured the in
dictment of a large number for selling
liquor on the Sabbath and to minors
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

CTATE NORMAL SCHOOL,
y RANDOLPH, VERMONT.
ABEL Z. LEAVENW0RTH, A. NJ, Principal,
Assisted by Four Capable Graduates Of Normal
Schools from three states.
New features for Fall Term, 1875. Capacity
Of building doubled. Model and prepai atory
departments added.
Fall Term opens fourth Tuesday in August.
Spring term, first Tuesday in February.
SEND For CATALOGUE.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-12-09

Light wines Son's satisfy heavy
drinker