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The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
CARPET SWEEPING.

Sweeping is 4 good exercise if you can
avoid raising a dust. But if you are in
need of vigorous exercise of that kind
get a hoe and betake yourself to the po-
tato-patch or corn-field. Sweep carpets
gently. Even rag carpet should be
treated with consideration. A severe
digging with stiff broom wears the
wrap and scrapes out the lint of the rags
quite needlessly. Not long ago heard
Il woman say that a very stiff broom was
needed for sweeping a Brussels carpet
| thought to myself "a stiff broom will
never sweep my Brussels carpets (good
reasons whyD, as imagined the tearing
out of the soft tufting of the carpet by
the coarse, sharp broom SplintS. \ car
pet sweeper is the best thing for this pur-
pose. 1t does the work easily and well,
and saves dust. \ brush of hair and
dust pan are good to use for the incest
carpets, but their use is too laborous for
recommendation to a busy houSe-keeper.
If a common broom corn broom must be
used for Brussels it should be fine, soft.
light and clean To sweep up threads,
ravelings and other fine litter, many per-
sons wet the broom in clean tepid water
shaking out of the water before sweeping
with it, just keeping the broom moist
enough to wipe up the fine dust and
threads. rinsing in clear water and shak-
ing it frequently as the work progresses.
Brussels carpets are not suitable for
rooms where sewing and baby culture are
going forward. In providing carpets for
any room, reason would dictate that they
be such as may easily lie kept clean; not
SO dark as to show every dust and thread
nor so light as to be easily soilcd-some-
thing which will either let the dust sitt
through or retain it on the surface. rather
than in the carpet itself, when to be used
in rooms where dust is made.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
WHIES: WISE HND WITTY.

The motto of the hen is to eggshcll.
An express agent-a discarded cor
set.
Workers in the dark-The foot-pad
and the liver-pad.
Cheating never prospers-except,
perhaps, in trading horses.
> The New Orleans Picayunc calls 4
mans conscience his own telephone.
The Presidents private secretary is
the man who makes everything public.
The christianity of California does
not favorably impress the heathens Of
China.
"A pound Of gold is now of about the
same value as Il pound Of silver in the
eleventh century.
If the Darwinian theory holds good
in astronomy the finest comet is that
which has no tail
The Mohammedans are called very
quiet, thoughtful people. They shut a
door gently although they believe in
Islam.
-" Well" said an old Lincoln Repub-
Hcan. eve may have dark horse or a
light horse; but we don't want politi-
cal zebra"
Major Mordecai, of the Whitaker
court. is lineal descendant of him who
sat at the gate of-now look out-A-haze-
you-ear-us.
When the news reached Philadelphia
that Shere Ali was dying, two lawyers
Immediately started for Afghanistan to
induce the relatives to contest the will.
The man who now has garden to be
spaded up tells the boys that there are
lots of worms to be found there and that
they are at liberty to dig as many as they
choose.
When pedestrian pretixes his name
with Professor" the Hartford journal
thinks it's enough to make colored
whitewasher 60 out behind the wood-pile
and weep for Il week.
A young Boston lawyer who didn't
believe in the Immortality of the soul
was induced upon one occasion to mix
cider with his whiskey, and he has bcena
member of church ever since.
A very eminent physician has said
that women are now aiming at doing
everything that men do, and that to each
thing that they aim at they bring twice
the amount of eagcrness that men bring.
A clerk in store recently asked for
half days absence, because he wantedto
attend a funeral in the country. When
he returned next morning with red hands
and freckled face his employer SAID:
"Where are the fish?'
1t used to be a common thing for
sailors to refuse to go to sea on FRIDAY.
We hear nothing of this i'll these steam
boat days. Steam has made every day
alike. Wherever steamboats, and steam
engines appear superstitions disappear
A man who quit keeping diary,
because he never could find anything to
write in it, was the next day run over by
cart, beaten out of three dollars on
dog trade, blackguarded by a fish wife
and drawn on Il jury. He will resume
the diary.
-"Oh, yes, yes" the old gentleman
said, rather obviously, while Laura was
telling him about Toms ability and pros
poets, "oh. yes; good enough prospects,
| reckon, but he lacks energy; there is
no get up about him; it takes linn TIL
one O. clock in the morning to get started.
But she only murmured that it showed
he was 'slaster" with great staying
qualities, and then the committee rose
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
POETRY.
A STORY OF SCIENCE.

y philosopher sat in his easy chair,
Looking as grave as Milton;
lie wore solemn, mysterious air,
AS he Canada BalSam split on
y strip of glass, as a slide, to prepare
For Il mite taken out of his Stilton.
He took his microscope ont of its case,
And settled the focus rightly:
The light, thrown back from the mirrors
face,
Came glimmering upward brightly;
He put the slide with the mite in place,
And fixed on the cover tightly.
lie turned the instrument up and down,
Till, getting proper sight, he
ENclaimed,-as he gazed with 4 puzzled
trown,-
Good gracious" and Hishty-tighty.
The sight is enough to alarm the town,
\ mite is monster mighty
From t'other end of the tube, the mite
Regarded our scientific;
To his naked eye, us you'll guess, the sight
Of man, was most terrific:
But reversing the microscope made him
quite
The opposite of magnific.
Zone sees the truth through this tube SC
tall,''
Said the mite as he squinted through it
" Man is not so wondrously big after all,
If the mite world only knew it,
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
COWBOYS Life in Southwest Texas,

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.
true history of 80 years' life on the cattle trail
giving full and detailed account of herdin9 eat
tie. rounding up, Nc. Ne. With thrilling adven-
tGres, narrow escapes. skirmishes with Indians
ami MeNicanS. how cattle make 100 per cent. on
Investment Invaluable to one contemplating
cattle business in Texas The only book out "
giving account OF = Ranch " life $50 PIP. Paper,
Sl.W: Cloth. Sl.25. by mail. Address W. NJ.
LEWIS y CO. Lock ROy 3i Henrietta Tpyss
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
WHOLE No. 1885

grain doses half an hour before meals,
is useful. We need hardly say that for
patients who are anpmic, or suffering
from what is usually called "poorness of
blood" iron is the remedy.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29

Small boys who crawl in under the
tent are generally invited to withdraw
from the canvas. The politicians should
be treated in the same way.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
ON 30 DAYS TRIAL

We will send our ELECTRO VoLTAIC BELTS and
other Electric Appliances upon trial for 80 days
those suffering from Nervous Debility, Rheu
matisIn. Paralysis or any diseases of the Liver
Kidneys. and many other diseases. A Sur.
Cure guaranteed no Pay. Address YOLTAlC
BELT CO. Marshall Michigan
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
MORAL.

Whether thing is large or small
Depends on the way you view 1t.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
PENN0CK'S PATENT ROAD MACHINE

hteI's tHt H1gHWH!s .drt 7UnfS Je17ff Tor hd7f Tie
present cost. Is rapidly coming inte favor in city
and country. Circular free.
SAM. PENNOCk Il SONS. kennett Square. Pa.
q = y y A YEAR and expenses to
eD Z agents. Outfit Free. Address p.
o. VICKERY. Augusta. Maine.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
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BEST MADE. Warra nted Six Years. New
PIANOS. Stool and Cover, $16O, upward.
New ORGANS, $40, $50, $50, $15, upwa'd.
Illustrated Catalogue Free. Agents Wanted.
HORACE WATERS II CO., 826 Broadway,
New York.
The Cecil Whig., 1880-05-29
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Best in the world. Lasts longer than any other.
Always in good condition. Cures, sores cuts,
bruises and corns. Costs but little more than the
limitations. Every package has the trade mark
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$40 10 $500. illustrated Catalogue Free. Ad-
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GOOD AGENTS WANTED TO SELL RIDPATH'S
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
An Agent in Bridgeport, Conn. sold 20 copies,
and stopped: another Agent was appointed in the
same town. who has sold 90 copies and he stop
ped we then appointed another Agent. who has
sold. up to date. over 600 copies all in the City of
Bridgeport. 1t is the best one-voume History of
the United States published. Plenty of Territory
still open. Address. for Descriptive Circular and
Terms PHILLIPS n HUNT. Subscription Book
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
A Man-Eating Tiger.

The Indian papers report that man.
eating tiger, which had killed fifty per-
sons during the last three years, has
been shot at Chakrata. This animal, il
seems, had for the last three years been
the terror OF the tract of country known
as Jaunsar Bawar. Indeed, for twenty
five miles beyond Deoban there is scarce
ly a village that has not its history of
human victims. On the thirteenth of
September, leaving his usual haunts, the
tiger appeared at Deoban and killed two
men close to the forest officers garden.
one body only being found. On the
morning of the fifteenth he killed bull
lock mile and half from Chakrata, on
the Deoban road. The forest officer.
MIR. A. Smythies, and Colonel Fitzroy.
Fifth Fusileers, and most of the officers
in garrison then made arrangements IN
surround the spot where the tiger was
last seen. Several soldiers also volun-
teered. After about two hours beating,
the tiger was ''marked down" under a
cliff. Nothing could persuade him to
leave his cover, and it was not until a
party with five or six guns advanced TO
the spot where he was lying that shot
was possible, Mr.. Smythies drawing first
blood, The tiger then bolted, receiving
the fire of several rifles, and was eventu-
ally killed on the Jadi road, about four
hundred yards from where he was first
hit. The government reward for the
tiger was 900 rupees. He was small
but very powerful animal, measuring as
he lay seven feet eight inches from his
pose TO the tip Of the tail.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
The Treatment OF Maud q.

Maud s., who beat the record by
trotting a mile at Chicago in 2:lO , is
q highly-bred mare, and wants to be
humored. Her heart is won by kind
ness. She will not stand harsh treat
ment, will not prove obedient under
rough usage. Both Bair and his wife
made much of Maud s.. They petted
her and treated her to apples and Jumps
Of sugar. The result is that she will
eagerly respond to their call. When
jogging on the track at Chester Park,
the presence of Mrs. Bair near the rail-
at any time would cause Maud to turn
in that direction. All last winter the
mare ran in roomy box. In April she
was put in front of a break cart, and
Mr.. Bair drove her about the streets of
Clifton and Cincinnati, and thus got
her accustomed to the noise and hustle
ofthe toiling world. He also harnessed
her double and taught her to drive on
either side. She does not like blinds to
her bride, but will trot with any kind
of bit in her mouth. All she asks ia
that the driver shall not pull on the bit.
She stands 1924 forward, and is plump
sixteen hands behind. Her weight is
$50 pounds. In her races this year she
has been driven to a fifiy-one pound
sulky, but Bair is having made for her
a sulky weighing forty-five pounds.
She wears fifteen and half-ounce shoe
forward and nine-ounce shoe behind.
She also carries four ounce toe weights.
For two weeks after her arrival at the
Queen City she was turned at five every
evening into six-acre grass lot, and
allowed to run until nine o'clock. This
kept her hair from fading under the
suns rays, and it cooled her out thor
oughly. After two weeks run at grass,
she was led every day for two weeks
behind break cart, SO padded that she
could not hurt hersef.-7hrf, Field and
Farm.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
Advertising.

A short time ago we called upon GER
tain party in business in Vallejo, and
asked him why he did not advertise in
the "Chronic1e"
"Oh, BECAUSE" he answered, "whats
the use? Nobody will ever see it."
"You're mistaken, said we; every
page in our paper is read"
Nonsense" he replied; "even if they
did read my adj, people would never
think of it again. 1 don't want to adj
vertise."
"But-"
"No butts at ALL I don't want to ad-
vertise, and don't bother me any more
I'm busy" and he walked back into his
store and strangled poor little fly that
was helping itself from q barrel OF
sugar.
Time passed, and we never again init
mated advertisement to him, though
meeting him daily. Yesterday the gen.
tleman called at our sanctum, looking q
little uncertain as to how he would be
received. We cherished no hard feel
ings, and motioned him to chair.
1 suppose you heard of that little
affair of mine below"
"Oh, yes" said we; "that little
escapade on Kearney street, night be-
fore last -? Yes, we've got all the par
'ticulars-"
"Hush not so loud, please" said
he; "of course you are going to say
nothing in the paper about it."
"And why not? It's matter of
interest to your friends and the people
generally"
"Heavens Why it would ruin me. "
ooh, no, guess not; nobody will ever
see it."
Yes they will and it will ruin me
AS sure as I'm sitting here. I'll be the
laughing-stock of the town. They will
see it !"
We rose and touched him impressively
on the shoulder.
"Well, we will admit that the peo-
pie will see it; but then, you know,
they will never think of it again"
His words came back to him like q
flash, and he trembled so violently that
his eyeballs fairly jingled, and he was
such an object of commiseration that
We promised to keep mum. This little
moral is drawn from the above, which
is applicable the world over. Ask q
man to advertise and he will immedi-
ately say, in the majority of cases, that
"Nobody will ever see it," but adver.
tise gratis some little indiscretion he
may commit, and he Immediately grows
indignant over the certainty that the
whole world will know it.---[Valleio
(Cal.) Chronicle.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
The Leather Medal.

And now it is the leather trade that
Americans are making their own in Eng
land. There has been held recently q
leather exhibition at the Agricultural
hall, London, in which various foreign
feathers as well as the British home
produce competed for the prize. The
result was that the United States liter.
ally bore off the leather medal. We ex-
port enormous quantities of leather to
England, as also does Australia; leather
of the heavier kind, sole leather, ready
tanned. 1t was found on inquiry that
American firms actually bought up pelts
and hides in the English market,
brought them over here, tanned them
and sent them back to England in the
form of finished leather. All this
causes John Bull to rub his eyes, open
his mouth and below. The Yankees,
he found, do more yet. The American
tanners buy the hides of the living ami
mails exported from here to England,
and when the animals are killed in
England the hides are brought back
here to be tanned. The explana-
ton given is that American opera
tors work on very large scale,
with large and cheap supply Of
hemlock, which gives great weight, and
gives it quickly, the tanner being paid
by weight. The Australians have an
abundance of hides, and send shiploads
of sole leather. AS consequence of
this fierce competition against two con-
tinents, the English tanner finds HIM
self driven TO the wall. The home
trade in England is being ruined. tam
neries are being closed, and capital re-.
fuses to waste itself on q profitless
speculation. Even in light feathers,
America completes with the British. The
kind known as Levants, Memels and
Cordovans are capitally initiated and
equaled, If not surpassed. Germany
does the same. France supplies the
chief stock of waxed calf for boot up
pers of the finer quality. The exports
of tanned leather from France to Eng
land in the interval between the exhibit
tions is great increase. In the United
Kingdom there are 10000 persons en-
ploysd in the various departments Of
the leather and skin trade. The value
of the hides and skins manufactured in
the kingdom is about f6, 100000. The
value of the imported skins and hides
exceeds this by e3,500,00O. The i'm
ports from France have more than
doubled since 1867. In round numbers,
the increase in value Of the imports into
the United Kingdom over the exports
is equal to $4,000, 600 since 1851
New York Gnphic,
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
Sumac Hunting.

Anybody visiting the valley of vir-
ginia in the autumn will be sure to no.
tice, after sunset, all along the slopes Of
the Blue Ridge mountains, little glim-
mering lights like stars. These are the
fires in front of the small tents of the
sumac hunters, who, after gathering
sumac all day long, are laughing and
talking with their wives and children as
they eat their suppers before lying down
to sleep.
Sumac is very pretty plant or shrub
which grows few feet high only, and
has beautiful blood-red leaves spring.
ing from a delicate shoot, or Dough.
The stalk is smooth, and the leaves are
almond-shaped, only more pointed. On
the top of the plant and its larger
boughs grow punches of red berries in
the shape of grape punches; and the
leaves and berries are of such a deep,
rich crimson in the late autumn that
they sometimes make the slopes of tho
hills appear as if they were ON fire.
Sumac is used for dyeing, and is said
to be better for that purpose than any,
thing else to color fair leather and GER
tain other fabrics. Great quantities of
it are employed in printing calicoes in
rich patterns, and the dresses worn by
ladies and girls often owe their bright
colors to the leaves of the sumac. The
way in which it is collected and pre-
pared for use is very simple. AS soon
rs the leaves turn red, which is to-
ward the end of summer, the sumac
hunters begin their work. They scat
ter through the fields, or along the
sides of the mountain, and break of
the twigs on which the leaves are grow
ing; for these twigs do not make the
leaves less valuable. Then, when they
have collected an armful, they put it in
pile or into bags, and as night comes
on the whole is taken to one spot, from
which it is hauled home in wagons.
Here it is laid ON the floor OF the barn
or any clubhouse, In the shade, so that it
may dry very gradually, and keep the
juices which afford the coloring matter.
When this process of drying is gone
through with, and the leaves are in
proper state, it is loaded on carts or
wagons, in bags, and taken to the
sumac mills, where it is weighed, and
paid for by the owner of the mills at
the rate of from one cent to cent and
half pound. The largest mills in
Virginia, where the finest sumac grows
or at least very fine article-are at
Richmond; but at Winchester, in the
lower part of the Shenandoah valley,
toward the Potomac, there is big mill,
where great quantities are purchased,
and prepared for the use of the dyers.
The leaves and small twigs are pounded
and reduced to a fine dust, and then it
is ready to be sent away. When it
reaches the manufactures where it is to
be used as dye for leather, calico, etc.,
it is mixed with what are called NOR
dants, certain substances that make it
bite in, as the word means, and take
fast hold Of the material to be dyed;
and then there is the pretty calico with
its bright colors, which cannot be
washed out. Harper's Young People.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
A Flower Firm.

A CORE esb8pdent OF the"Boston Herald
gives Il q Following account of noted
flower 4 rr1m in England: In corner of
the con ,fy 81 Essex, England, Messrs.
Garter, ferfculturists, have established n
farm de voted to the growth of flowers.
These dants are not destined TO adorn
the gar lens of the woalthier classes, but
TO furni sh seed from which flowers NAV
be ultii nateIy obtained. A recent visit
to the village of st. Osyth, discloses
trnct of weIl-sheltered country, which,
in its variety of colors, reminded one OF
a stained glass window gone mad. In
one place an expanse of the deepest blue
is formed by a few acres of Nemophila
insignis. Next to it appears perfect
sea OF the purple Saponaria Then
comes dash of the deep blue Lobelia,
and, farther on, one enters q space Gov
cred with the Venetian red of the Phlox
drummondi. These are followed by
smaller beds of Sweet Williams, the vel.
low Oxalis, the pink Eucharidium, the
purple Leptospermum, and these masses
Of color are relieved by the white Memo
phila.
Another portion Of the farm is devoted
to Petunias, with purple and white
leaves edged with green; these are FOL
lowed by yellow sea OF Eschscholtz'a
crocea, and then comes promontory OF
the odiierous sweet ESuitan, white, lilac
and yellow. AT the end OF this appears
an Island OF Verpena surrounded by the
blue nupin. Asea OF the bright scarlet
dodetia, named alter the f1ncess OF
wales, and another pond OF the same
color Is formed by the Lo6ella cardi'
nalls. Every color Is found here; the
blue OF the Lorbella speclosa, the pale
blue OF the Campanule,. the yellow OF the
snapdIagon' the rosy TINT OF the sweet
pea, the deep orange OF the Eschschoit-
zla mandarin, the bright scarlet OF the
Iom Ihumb Nasturtlum, .the old-fash-
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
SCIENCE I WINS.
A splendid Surgical observation-disclosures"
Result and WONDERFUL Rccorery'

suReicRL opBRATIoS-The operation Of lith-
otomy (removal OF stone from the bladder), one OF
the most severe and critical operations known 10
the science of surgery was successfully performed
on Tuesday upon MIR. Henry II Pitts, a mcrchan
Of this city, BY DR.. David Kennedy. Several
friends Of The patient witnessed the operation.
Mr. Pitts has suffered several years from this dill
ficulty, but II was only week before the opera
ton that he was made aware OF the real cause o
his complaint
RECOVERY. Mr.. Henry II. Pitishas recovered
from the effects incidental TO the operation, the
closing of the wound being completed on the 18th
day. IIis general health is goOd-bctter than il
haA been for years, while he is perfectly free from
all those distressing symptoms 50 characteristic
ofthe disease with which he suffered. Had this
and milar cases used DR., Kennedy's "Favorile
Remedy" In the early stages ofthc complaint the
formation ct stone would have been prevented
"Favorite Remedy" also purines the blood, curei
Constipation of the Bowels, and all those diseases
and weaknesses peculiar to Females. This won
derful medicine is now for sale by all our drug
gists. 81 bottle.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1880-12-17
A Copper Mine.

One of the curiosities of Arizona is ON
ancient copper mine on the east side OF
the Verde. BY whom it was worked
it would be hard to determine. Pos
sibly by the Aztecs; more likely by the
Apaches. This is more reasonable, as
the mine has not been worked for the
metal in the ore, but for the paint.
There are now on the dump rich and
easily worked carbonates, while every
spot where high-colored, soft material
showed itself has been worked out.
Several rock tools which have been
found, with battered edges, and stains OF
ore on them, prove that implements Of
stone were used. They ran tunnel into
the ledge nine feet high and from six to
eight feet wide. 1t is about twenty feet
long. In places there are walls built
and the waste matter thrqwn behind
them.