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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

Three functions of fiction l conceive
to exist: Instruction, rendering more
palatabie than it might otherwise be by
u coating of figure and strophe the con-
veyance of moral teaching, by means of
the oldest known form of Illustration,
the fable, by which the mind is attrac-
ted to the entertainment, or Mt least
consideration, of truths arrayed in
pleasant garb, from the bare presenta-
tion of which 1t would turn away in
indifference or disgust; and amusement,
pure and simple. Let il be here re-
marked that people are too apt to es-
feem this last the only or at least the
most important function of fiction.
These are no arbitrary distinctions;
the first two are founded on Biblical
precedent and authority, for our blessed
Lord made use of fiction in the convey
ance both of instruction and moral
teaching. Witness the parallels of the
talents, the virgins, the fg-tree, the
sOwcr, Peters vision of the sheet, the
drag-net and the grain of mustard seed.
The third function, while / would not
esteem 1t the greatest, neither do les
sen its Importance as compaI ed with
tho others. The mind of man can 10
more keep up strain of labor without
cessation than his feet and hands can be
bound, Sisyphus-like, to unremittent
tasks. So instruction must interchange
with amusement, and to lead healthy
moral and intellectual life our reading
should be chequered after this manner.
L Rev. b. Z. Warner.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
One STYLE Of Christian.

Now Lydia Crane was not naturally
inclined to be querulous or selfish she
had been duly converted in the progress
of revival in Lyndon, and joined the
church during Parson Beach's lifetime.
She read her bible daily; said her
prayers, and was a punctual attendant
on all the means of grace. She was the
head aud front of the church sewing So
ciety, aud secretary of the Foreign Mis-
sion Circle, yet in the living of her life
she had become at the age of thirty five,
fretful, self-centered, opinionated, and
domineering, but perfectly certain that
she was an exemplary Christian. Char
ity, sympathy, tenderness, do not grow
in such O solitude as hers; it is not good
for man or woman TO be alone; and if
10 be a Christian Is to wear the image
of Christ, as the gospel seems to imply,
there was very little obvious likeness
in Miss Lydia to the Master whose name
she wore.
Yet she was thoroughly honest wo-
man, anxious above all things to do
right; ready TO give to every "object"
that impelled the long-handled contrl-
button boxes, with deacOns at the other
end, through every slip on every other
Sunday, though she had not even kind
word tor the beggar at her door; for
begging implied "shiftlessness" and
that was unpardonable.-TS Sunday AT
ternOon.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
The Versatility OF CLUSTERS" :"

A day or two ago a motherly- looking
woman of forty-five entered Wood
ward aveAue clothing store having a
mans linen duster on her arm. and
when approached by salesman she
said:
"Some one in here sold this duster to
my son yesterday"
~ es, ma'am, | sold it myself" repli-
eu lne clerk, as he looked at the gar
ment.
"Did you tell my son that this duster
could be worn either to picnic, funer-
al, bridal party, or quarterly meeting ?''
II did, madam, and SO it can"
"Did You tell him it made good fly-
blanket when not otherwise needed?'
81 did,"
"That it could be used as boat at-sail,
stretcher, q straw bed and bed
spreadY"
Eyes, ma'am, l did,"
"And that many people use. them as
table-covers?
al did,"
"And that they would last for wears
and then make excellent stuff for rag.
carpet?"
~ did"
"And you only charged dollar?v
"Only dollar, ma'am.'
"Well, when John came homo last
night and brought the duster, and told
me all you said, l made up my mind
that he must have been drunk, and
was leetle afraid he stole the garment
| am glad it's all right"
ut certainly is all right, ma 'am, and
since he was herc yesterday We have
discovered that the duster is great
conductor of sound, preventive OF
snnstroke aud that no man with one on
his back-has ever dropped dead with
heart disease."
Lord save usw she gasped, as she
waited for the bundle; "but who knows
that they won't fix 'em so fore long
that they'll raise a mortgage of the
iarm?"-[Detroit Free Press.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

SUNDAY AFTERNOON $500 a year.
Springfield, Mass for September Is the
last issue of the magazine under that
name. The new title will be Good
Company. The character of the maga-
zine will remain the same, and there
will be no change in its management.
This number has stories by Rose Terry
Cooke and Elizabeth w. Denison, these
sketches,-A Bit of New England. A
Practical Leaven, The Old Log School.
house, and Sketches in Southern Cali
fornla; also an account of the summer
| charities of New York by William II
Rideine, Rev. u. Il. Warner writes
about the pernicious periodical litera.
ture for the young now so abundant
Rev. DIR. j. NJ. Wilton about some no,
cnliarities of the books of Esther and
Ruth, and there are carefully prepared
papers OH Latimer as Social Reformer
by Octave Thanet and on the Public
Schools and National Culture by Noble
G. Butler. The Hebrew Hereafter is A
reply to the Hebrew Faith in lmmor.
taiity in tho last number. There arc
several poems, including one in the
sui Hour Department. The Editors
Table has articles on Rink Religion
Vacation Sundays; makes All onslaught
on the trashy periodicals of the day
and expresses qualification "that the
great International Game of Hon
skip and Jump in which our Sunday.
schools have been engaging every Sun.
day for almost seven years, is prett,
nearly ended"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

Jesse III. Drake, known to the people
OF Nash county as having been chair.
man of the old county court, very
bright mason and high officer In the
order, aud most miserly man, died al
his home, six miles from Rocky Mount,
in Nash county, on Friday, Aug. l.
Born in 1900, he would have attained
his 79th year on Sept. 3, proximo. lie
left very fair estate-worth, perhaps,
$40, ,0OO- TO four of his former slaves
Calvin Drake, Aaron Drake, JUDAH
Drake, for their lives. with remainder
to their children. His will, written
March 20, 1877, was witnessed by DR.
Whitehead, Mr.. Samnel Marshbourne
and an0ther. He leaves all his estate,
real, personal and mixed, of whatsoever
nature, to these parties, as above stated,
after rehearsing that "they had been
his faithful slaves and had remained
with him since freedom, nursing and
caring for him in his old age" and he
desired thus TO show his gratitude
Calvin and Aaron are named executors
without liability. The executors found
81 400 In gold and sS,03l "A good paper
on g. w. Grandy IL Sons, of Norfolk
The tract of land contains 400 acres.
This should be noticed at the Nortl
TO eviDce the fierce feeling of anger EN-
tertained by old shareholders agains
their slaves.-[rarboro IN. CD South
erner,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

The sanctity of creed or liturgy be-
gins after fallible men have adopted it.
In the process of construction il may be
sufficiently criticised and condemned.
A committee of seven bishops labored
for week in New York trying to adapt
our American Episcopal liturgy 20 the
use of tho Church Of Jesus In Mexico,
10 which they were giving tho Episco-
pate. They found great diiiiculty in
doing it, until at last they gave up the
attempt, and recommended an old Span
ish liturgy, called the Mozarabic. As
this liturgy was satisfactory in its form
for the administration of the sacraments,
intoxicating there Is no false doctrine.
they adopted it as better adapted than
an Anglican one for an Old Catholic
movement.-[ Independent.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

A German clergyman who was tray-
cling stopped at a hotel much frequent
ed by wags and jokers. The host, moi
being used to have a clergyman at his
table, looked at him with surprise.
The guests used all their artillery OF
wit upon him, without eliciting re-
mark. The Clergyman ate his dinner
quietly, apparently without observing
the gibes and sncers of his neighbors.
One OF them, at last, In despair of his
forbeaiance, said to him: "Wcll,
wonder at your patience Have you
not heard all that has been said to
your "Ohsyes; but am used to 1t.
DO you know who l amp "No, sir."
"Well, l will inform you. am chap.
lain OF lunatic asylum. Such re-
marks have no effect upon me-"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
POsT-OFFICE NOTICE
CHURCH DIRECTORY.

MIDDLEBURY.
Congregationai-Corner Pleasant and Main SITS
Rev. Il. p. Hooker pastor. Sunday services a
l0:45 AM. and 700 Pm. Thursday evening
prayer meeting 1T 90 -
Aefhodist-North Pleasantst. Rev. w. ii. Row
som, pastor. Sunday services at 10: 45 AM ant
100 pm. Thursday evening prayer meeting a
800. Class meeting on Friday evening at I 80.
Fpiscopdl-St. stephens Church-Main-st. Rev
James L. Franklin, rector. Sunday school at 0 :3t
An, Sunday services at 10 AS AM. and 100 Pm.
Roman Caao.'cweyordgeis atarna,e Mey a. Sah sun
baths High Mass at 1000 AN; Nespers and
benediction at Q: 80 Pm.
EAST MIDDLEBURY.
Methodist -, pastor. Sunday services
at2;00P.M
Bapf,sf-Rev Charles Hibbard, pastor. Sunday
services at 10; 40 An and 200 Pm: weekly
Nefhodist-Iscv. ii. N. Munger, pastor. Sunday
services at 1900 and I 90 PM. Weekly prayer
fsas EpssSsopa-ss. pal Paafs ckareh~Rcv F. s. Fisher
ector. Sunday services at 10 45 AN. and 90 Pm
Friday evening at Z: 90.
services at JAS AN. and 1900 Pm. Weekly
prayer meeting on Thursday evening.
oryices' 0 Alternate sapbaths High Mass at 10 90
AN; vespers and benediction at 0oPM.
Congregat;onat.RIey, Z, George Hal,; pWassoIr pWasI
yprayer meeting on Thursday evening at 700.
Bristol Directory.
CHURCHES.
Bapf,st-Rev W. ID. Hall, apstor. Sunday ser
vices at 10 AS A. NJ. and 100 p. NJ. Prayer meet
ing Thursday evening at 80. Young peoples
meeting Tuesday evening at 80.
Methodisf-Rev. l.. A. Dibble, pastor. sunday
services at 10 AS A. NJ and 100 P, NJ. Class meet
Hs Tuesday evening g. 1880 Prayer meeting
AdVent-Rev. Mr.. Quimby, pastor. Sunday
Evangelical Adveat--Rev ID. Bosworth Prayer
meeting every Friday evening at Elder hos
worths house.
NAILS ARRIVE.
From New Haven, the North, New York, Boston,
and the West through Burlington. 80. +. NJ:
From New Haven, the South, New York, Bos-
ton and the West. 90 Pm.
From Richmond Huntington, Huntington Cen
ter, and Starksboro, =. NJ. MONDAYS Wednes-
days and FRIDAYS, at 80 p. m.
From Lincoln, Or. NJ.
From South Starksboro, three times week IT.
regularly. :, .,. :.
regularly.
NAILS LEAVE.
For New Haven, Boston, New York, and the
South, 10 80 A. NJ.
For New Haven, the North, Boston, New York.
and the West through Burlington, O0P. NJ
For Richmond Starksboro, Huntington ana
Huntington Center, 80 Tuesdays, Thursdays,
Saturdays, at 80 a. IN.
For Lincoln, o 20 p. NJ.
For South Stark sboro, three times week irreg-
ularly.
FREDERICK LANDON. M.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

There is curious tendency in human
nature to crave sorrow In hidden aud
unconscious way, that does not need or
find words, but betrays itself In actions.
IL Is like the physical longing for salt
pure joy and peace are savorless with
out this pungent flavor of tears; there
is no relief TO sculpture without shad-
ow, no delight TO the eye like dawn.
aud yet dawn implies darkness, newt
ably. ifif.- -
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
soSe OF A SWING.


III DORA READ GOODALE.
Betwcen tho lcafy trees that toss
Their branches TO the summer sky.
Ihere hangs an open swing:
Ana now footstep passes by,
%mnu % noat maiden's words across
lho summer silence, dcep and bigh
Ana reach me where listening he,
And thus hear her sing
The winds blow over the open plain,
nv, And free as the wind swing
And Ing P,ras Srra "a diP deep in the quiyering sky,
fho never so high dare TO ny,
AS merrily may sing
Low, winds and lower, dip among the erass
sweep along your emerald flood, touch me rs
High, birds, and higher reuch the infinite skv.
"ishSl sY hearts may well aspire-you can ;onl
Now about me faltcrs in
90, Sunlight through the shade,
Higheri for cannot rest
TIL see the robins nest
Anu the four blue eggs within
that the mother-bird has laid
Now is folded faster round mo
All the trees intenser green.
Leafy arches close about me
As sweep betweeni
Fly the birds and fly with them.
Farther would dare to range.
Beating TO boundless rhythm,
Set to music wild and strangel
Low, winds, and lower dip among the crass.
sweep along your emerald floor, touch me as
High, birds and higher. reach the infinite skv.
"'shinl hearts may well aspire--you can only
-LChristian Union.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

Many man when he begins TO ac-
cumulate wealth commences nj the
same time TO ruin his soul. l,isiead OF
doing more for God he does less; and
tho more he wants of this world The less
he cares for the world to come. III,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

II is not the poetry, the splendid inn
agos, the lofty moral tone Of the scrip
ture that makes II a two-edged sword;
but its living truth andits practical ap-
plication.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
Blade.

HEMoRRHoDs. suffered terribly.
Had made arrangements with "A prom
incnt surgeon to operate. A friend
advised mo 10 try Giles Liniment and
Pills. j did so, and to my unspeaka-
BILE joy, got immediate relief, aud am
now cured. j. l.. kENNN,
Metropolitan Hotel, N. Y.
Giles Pills cures liheumatism. For
sale at N. II. Riders old stand. Send
for pamphlet. DIR. Giles, 120 West
Broadway, N. Y. Trial size 25 cents.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

An Indiana carpenter is SO temperate
that he will not use spirit level.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
BUSINESS CARDS.

<ILEN HOUSE.-East Middlebury. Vermont
H SONS WILL ALLEN, Manager.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

Visitors to the fair at Montpelier next
week should not fail to see the Rhysf0n
MaRqie. which irons clothes wifh0at
heat. Those who do not go TO the fair
should send for circular 10 Il. A. Whis.
ton, z Herald building, Boston, Mass.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

Habitual Costiveness, the cause of so
many troubles, Lowness of Spirits,
Dizziness of the Head, Loss OF
Memory, Indigestion, Flatulence,
Beating of the Heart, Nervousness,
all these are cured by Giles Improved
Mandrake Pills. Giles Pills cures
Cont. Sold by II. Birchard. Send
for pamphlet, DIR. Giles, 100 West
Broadway, N. Y. Trial size 25 cents.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
RAILROAD TIME-rABL
LEAVE LEICESTER JUNCTION.
ADDISON RAILROAD

ADDISON RAILROAD
Mixed train leaves III at 80 A. NJ; arriving at
Leicester Junction at Z 80 A. NJ.
Mixed train leaves Leicester Junction at D :3o
p. NJ. at arriving ut ii 7 90 Z. M
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

WY ii. KINGSLEY, Dentist.
IA Middlebury, VT.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

TAMEs M. sL.ADE, Attorney and Counsel
81 Ior at Law, and Solicitor and Master il
Chancery. Onice in Brewster's Block.
Aliddlebury. VT. April 2, 1877.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05

A DDIsON HOUSE LIVERY STABLE.
IN ID. RIDER, Proprietor. Firstclas turnout.
furnished on short notice. Prices reasonable.
Middlebury, W. H- 5tf
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-05
MliSSleburp 8tgisttr
R- M b ALL Il Y
ED/20R IND 2'JtBL<SHER.
Advertising Rates

si,B0per annum. IL paid In caah. strictly In
dvance $500 per annum for tho time IN ar
ears when not paid in advance.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-28
How They Eat in Sweden.

An exchange gives the following ac-
count of how they eat in Sweden: The
habit of lunching in the very presence of
dinner, or going to II side table and eat
ing your fill Of anchovies, raw herrings,
smoked beef and cold eel pie while
dinner is on the very table, still prevails,
and is hardly conducive to health. 1t is
said that the habit of taking "a sup as
the Swedes call it, arose from the scarcity
of delicacias. 1t was hard to get enough
of any one nice thing to make a meal of
so you were first delicately inuendoed off
to the brandy table, as it is called, and
then allowed to sit down to dinner.
The practice is universal in Sweden.
Private houses, hotels and boarding
houses all feed you on preliminary
scraps, and woe be to you ifyou inno-
Gently turn away from the proffered
luncheon! You fare like an ascetic and
feed yourself on odors. The ordinary
routine of dining seems in Sweden to be
in wild confusion. Soup sometimes ends
instead of beginning the dinner. Iced
soups and cold fish are dainties to the
Scandinavian palate. Much of the soup
is nauseOusly sweet, favored with
cherries, raspberries and gOosebeTries,
often with macaroOn cakes and spikes of
cinnamon floating wildly about in it.
This is eaten as a sort of dessert, and is
cold and often beautifully clear. Every
thing is blue, green, yellow and black.
Strange combinations of ice cream heap
ed over delicious apple tarts or strange
dishes of berry juice, boiled down and
mixed with farina, sugar and almonds,
then cooled, nodded and turned out
into basins of cream, to be eaten with
crushed sugar and wine, appear at the
end of the dinner. The Swedes share
with the Danes and Arabs a passionate
fondness for sweetmeats. Everything is
slightly sweet; even green peas are
sugared, as well as the innumerable tea
and coffee cakes, so that long before the
unhappy tourist has finished his tour he
is a hopeless dyspeptic or raging
Swedophobe.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-28
Words of Wisdom.

What cannot be required is not to be
regretted.
Attention to small things is the econ
omy of virtue.
Truth is often wounded, but never
slain outright.
The scales of justice are for the weight
of the transgressor.
Men may bend to virtue, but virtue
cannot bend to men.
Witticisms are never agreeable which
are injurious to others.
Flattery is like your shadow it makes
you neither larger nor smaller.
A needy man, who gives costly dinners,
pays large sums to be laughed at.
From the ordinary manner of spending
the time we may judge of any mans
genius.
Strength of mind depends upon So
briefly, for this keeps reason unclouded
by passion.
There is no less grandeur in supporting
great evils than in performing great
deeds.-LiUy
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-28
The Everlasting Memorial.

Up and away like the dew of the morning,
That scars from the earth to its home in the
sun,
So let me steal away, gently and lovingly,
Only remembered by what have done.
My name, and my place. and my tomb all Tor
gotten,
The brief race of time well and patiently run,
SO let me pass away, peacefully, silently,
Only remembered by what have done.
Gladly away from this toll would hasten,
Up to the crown that for me has been won
Unthought of by man in rewards or in praises,
Only remembered by what have done.
Up and away, like the odors OF sunset
That sweeten the twilight as evening comes
on;
SO be my liie-a thing felt but not noticed
And but remembered by what have done.
Yes, like the fragrance that wanders in fresh
ness
When the flowers that it came from are
closed up and gone,
So would he to this worlds weary dwellers
Only remembered by what have done.
need not be missed, if my lite has been bearing
(As its summer and autumn move esilently on)
The bloom, and the fruit and the seed OF its
season;
shall still be remembered by what have
done.
Needs there the praise of the love-written re-
cord,
The name, and the epitaph graved on the
stone
The things we have lived for-let them be our
story
We ourselves but remembered by what we
have done.
need not be missed if another succeed me
To reap down the fields which in spring
have sown,
lie who plowed and who sowed is not missed
by the reaper,
He is only remembered by what he has done.
Not myself, but the truth that in lie l have
spoken,
Not myself, but the seed that in life l have
sown,
Shall pass on to agss--all about me forgotten
Save the truth l have. spoken, the things
have done.
So let my living be-so be my dying;
So let my name lie, unblazoned, unknown.
Unpraised end unmissed, l shall still be re-
membered;
Yes, but remembered by what have done.
-HOrdiio Bonar.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-28
The Dignity of Bells,

With what strange and solemn men,
ories have bells yet eXtant been associ-
ated! The long green bell in the leaning
tower of Pisa, said to date back to the
thirteenth century, which has rung for
ages as the sad professions of criminals
have passed over the bridge to execu-
tion-the very bell which, perchance,
announced to the awe-struck Pisans that
the wretched Ugolino, starved to death
at the bottom of the tower, had at
length ceased to breathe. The great
Carolus at Antwerp, which first rung in
1867, when Charles the Bold entered the
city the stOrm-bell in Strasburg cathe-
dral, which still warns the traveller of
the tempest seen from afar sweeping
over the Vosges; the small bell Horrida,
the tocsin, 1916, covered with mildew,
which hangs high up in NOtre Dame at
Antwerp, and is never rung, by reason
OF its age and infirmities; the gate bell
in many an old fortified town, that still
sounds at the shutting and opening of
the city portals; the curfew, which,
from time immemorial, has rung, over
the flats of Cambridge and the fens of
Ely, and still greets the ears of the
freshmen, reminding him of the time
when the neighborhood was one waste
of perilOus and poisonous marshes; the
old Tourney bells, which from their city
belfry greets the silent, colossal five
towers of the grandest church in Bel
gium, and strike the ear of the traveller
as he hurries along the high road from
Lille, almost before the beacon-hght on
the summit of the belfry salutes his eyes
and these are chance specimens that
arise in my memory at random.-GOOd
Words.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1879-05-28
Earth.Weary,

Tho earth is fair--its fertile valleys lie
AS glad as if beneath Tuscan sky;
Scarce lisp the breezes as they slowly pass
And kiss the reaching boughs and springing
grass.
The birds sing sweetly in the sheltered shade
All nature smiles in summers sunny glow
All things rejoice in what our God hath made
And man alone would fuller knowledge
know.
The strong ship strains its moarings to go
forth
And breast the pillows of life's bounding sea,
That stretches out to immensity
And thus, mans soul, weighed down to sordid
earth,
Struggles and strives from fetters to be free
And heavenward reaches out eternallx -
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