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The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-07

The past twenty years 1 have grated
and propagated many thousands Of
grapevines in my greenhouse and in
the field; have tried qlmost every month
in the year, and find April or May the
best time, or when the buds are just
bursting or pushing; then no sap will
trouble or drown out the graft, as is the
case when the grating is done in tho
fall or early spring, as heretofore recon-
mended. Such grating will most sure
ly prove failure. use no wax; clay
is much better; but the scions must be
kept back. Graft below ground on
young, thrifty plants. No good CRATER
would ever think of grating old snags
or old trees that ought to be cut down !;
and so with old vines that have been
neglected and not renewed, they are no
better than old snags, and it is time
lost to try to improve such self exhaust
ed and worn-out plants. Nor can graft
ing be done by every one without
experience. No CRATER is always sue
cessful in grating the apple or pear,
much less in grating the grape, as it is
quite different process, although quite
simple to one who knows how Canada
Farmer.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-10-07
A Big Meteor.

The fall OF q meteor in the bay near
Goat Island, from the description Qiyep
to Cal reporter by various persons on
the water front, must have been a sight
seldom witnessed by man. Hearing
that an old fisherman had been on The
bay near where the aerolite fell, the re.
porter looked him up and got the follow.
ing story: EYES," said he, at was near
the place when that meteor fell, and
let me soy right here, don't want to
be there when the next one comes down.
l tell you what, young man, I've been
in good many close places in Cali
fornia, fighting grizzlies and standing
off Mexicans in 40, but never said nv
prayers rs many times in a second as /
did when that meteor lit for the
bay this morning. was going
across tho bay to the Oakland flats to
set my nets, as do most every morn
ing. Well, when got almost opposite
the island, all of sudden it got 80
light that 1 thought the whole electric
Light business had exploded right over
my head. I pulled for the island as
hard as could, for always had holy
horror of making fish-bait of myself.
had not made two strokes when il got
ALFRED hot, and L looked around and
was Just in time to see the grandest and
terriblest sight these old eyes ever
looked upon. Not ten feet from
me the meteor struck the water. 1t
looked as large as horse. When it
struck you could have heard the kissing
almost mile. I never heard anything
like it before. Almost as soon as it
went under my boat was over the spot,
and the water was bubbling and
steaming as though a young volcano
had broken out" "Do you think
you could find the exact place
where the meteor struck ?" asked the re-
porter. "I don't know. As soon as
| daylight came 1 went back to see how
things looked, and found a number of
dead fish floating around. 1 think it
was about two hundred yards from the
island, little east of south. / was so
badly scared that 1 can't say exactly"
"How old are you, and what is your
name ?" I was born in Maine in 1928,
and my name is John Small" answered
the lone fisherman. The reporter called
upon Professor Kinks at the State
mining bureau. The professor was out
of town, but it has been reported by
several parties that the aerolite had been
seen by quite number of persons.
Professor Davidson was also called
upon, but was out. This is, without
doubt, one of the largest aerolites that
has visited the earth for some time past.
San Francisco Call.
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Household Hints.

It is said that if few drops Of oil
are put once n week into water tanks
mosquitoes will be prevented from
breeding in them.
If you have no cellar, but have we'll,
suspend the butter in tin pail tied to
rope, nearly to the bottom of the we'll,
and you will have cool, hard butter for
dinner.
A paste made of whiting and benzine
will clean marble, and one made of
whiting and chloride of soda spread and
left to dry lin the sun if possible) on
the marble will remove spots.
A water key or jug for supplying the
harvest men will keep the water much
cooler if it is wrapped all over in sew
eral folds Of flannel or carpet. Water
for the house and ice will keep much
longer in the same way.
If tablecloths, napkins and handker-
chiefs are folded an inch or two beyond
the middle they will last much longer;
it is on the edges of folds where they
first wear, and folding them not on a
middle line, each ironing, they get a
new crease.
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How Easy II Is to DIE.

"If l had strength to hold a pen, /
would write how easy and delightful il
is to die" were the last words of the
celebrated surgeon. William Hunter;
and Louis XIV. is recorded as SAYING.
with his last breath, 81 thought dying
had been more difficult"
That the painlessness of death is
owing to some benumbing influence
acting on the sensory nerves may be in.
ferred from the fact that untoward ex-
ternal surroundings rarely trouble the
dying.
On the day that Lord Collinewood
breathed his last the Mediterranean
was tumultuous; those elements which
had been the scene Of his past glories
rose and fell in swelling undulations
and seemed as if rocking him to sleep.
Captain Thomas ventured to ask il he
was disturbed by the tossing of the
ship. "No, Thomas" he answered, 81
am now in state that nothing can dis
turb me more-I am dying, and 1 am
sure 1t must be consolatory to you and
all that love me to see how comfortably
am coming to my end"
In the Quarterly Recisp there is re-
lated an instance Of criminal who es.
capped death from hanging by the break
ing OF the rope. Henry w., of France
sent his physician to examine him, who
reported that after moments suffer
ing the man saw an appearance like fire,
across which appeared most beautiful
avenue OF trees. When q pardon was
mentioned the prisoner coolly replied
that It was not worth asking for. Those
who have been near death from drown
ing, and afterward restored to conscious
ness, assert that the dying suffer but
little pain.
Captain Marryatt states that his SEN
sations at one tins when nearly drowned
were rather pleasant than otherwise.
"The first strugglefor life once over, the
water closing around me assumed the
appearance Of waving green fields. It
is not feeling Of pain, but seems like
sinking down overpowered by sleep, in
the long. soft grass of the cool meadow"
Now, this is precisely the condition
presented in death from disease. In.
sensibility comes on, the mid loses
consciousness of external objects, and
death rapidly and placidly ensues from
asphyxia.
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The Newspaper In n Farmhouse.

People who live near the great thor
oughfares, where they have access to
two or three dailies and half dozen
weeklies, do not fully appreciate the
value OF newspaper. They come. in
deed, to look upon them as necessities.
and they would as oheeIfulIy do without
their morning meal rs their morning
mail. But one must be far off in the
country, remote from "the maddening
crowd" to realize the full luxury Of q
newspaper. The farmer who receives
but one paper week docs not glance
over its columns hutriedly, with an air
OF impatience, as does your merchant or
lawyer. He begins with the beginning
and reads to the close, not permittinga
news item or an advertisement to escape
his eye. Then it has to be thumbed BY
every member of the family, each one
looking for things in which he or she is
most interested. The grown-up daugh-
ter looks for the marriage notices, and is
delighted if the editor has treated
them to love story. The son who is
Just about to engage in farming, with
an enthusiasm that will carry him far in
advance ofhis father, reads all the crop
reports and has keen eye for hints
about improved modes of culture. The
younger members of the family come in
for the amusing anecdotes and scraps of
fun. All look forward to the day that
shall bring the paper with the liveliest
interest and If by some unlucky chance
1t fails to come it is bitter disappoint-
ment. One can hardly estimate the
amount of information which a paper
that is not only read but studied can
carry into family. They have, week
by week, spread before their mental
vision panorama of tho busy world,
its fluctuations and its concerns. It is
the poor mans library, and furnishes as
much mental food as he has time to
consume and digest. No one who has
observed how much those who are far
away from the places where men most
congregate value their weekly paper
can fail to join in invoking blessing
on the inventor of this means of intel
lectual enioyment.--Ced1' Rapids Re
publican.
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SP1cED APPLE TARrs.--Rub stewed
tart apples through sieve; sweeten
and flavor with mace or cinnamon; line
soup plates with crust, fill with the
apple and lay bars Of crust quarter Of
an inch wide over the top OF the tart.
Bake till the crust is done.
PLAIN PUDDNa.-Herei is recipe fol
good and simple pudding: One pint
Of -four, half q cup Of sugar, three.
quarters Of a cup of sweet milk, one
tablespoonful of butter, two teaspoon.
fuls of baking powder. Bake for twenty
minutes; serve with any good pudding
sauce.
TOMATO SoUP.-To one quart of water
add eight large tomatoes; cut them in
small pieces, boil for twenty minutes,
then put in half teaspoonful of soda;
let it boil few minutes more, then add
about pint of sweet milk; season as
you would oysters; bread crumbs, sage,
barley or rice may be added.
RICE FRUIT PUDDNa.-One large tea
cup rice, little warm water to cook
partially; dry; line an earthen basin
with the rice; fill up with quartered
apple or any fruit you choose. Cover
with rice; tie cloth over the top and
steam one hour; to be eaten with sweet
sauce. Do not butter the dish.
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The SO.Cnlled Hog Cholera.


If there is any one subject upon
which people have muddled ideas it is
that of diseases of swine, and conse-
quently If from any cause q number OF
hogs in herd or neighborhood die in
the same week or month the statement
is made and circulated that "cholera "
prevails. The term is comparatively a
meaningless one and is made to apply
to any of dozen symptoms, when in
reality hogs do not have any disease
that rightly could be called cholera;
hence when our farmers lose some of
their hogs We hope they will investigate
and see if the loss is not due rather to
some Encouragement of their own than
to any epidemic. OF course it matters
little to the loser by what name the dis
ease is called which robs him of the
best Of his herd, but no man in his
right mind can supposethe hog becomes
sick or dies from mere stubbornness.
Some law of nature has been violated,
and natures penalty, disease, follows.
Nature points unerringly to the fact
that the hog as well as any other animal
requires variety of food, and no greater
mistake is made by breeders than con-
timing him to corn day after day through
out the year. For fattening purposes
nothing better than that can be pro-
duced for the same money is likely to
found, but for healthy, vigorous growth
and making it is far from q perfect
food. II is too :carbonaceous for bone
ormuscle production, and without these
an animal cannot have vitality, activity
or endurance. The UNMARRIED use of It
causes feverish condition of the sys-
tenn, constipation, suspension of growth,
and general debility which make the
animal ready and easy prey to other
and more malignant forms OF diseases.
The Canadian and Yankee farmers do
not lose their hogs from cholera; with
some corn they feed potatoes, pumpkins,
waste apples, vegetables, oats, beans,
barley, bran, shorts, millstuff, peas,
ETC., variety that produces a remark.
able growth of healthy hogs at mini
mum cost.
In the Western States, where farmers
raise hogs by hundreds, the most prac-
ticable means of supplying a change of
feed is to grow clover, beets and arti-
chokes. Rightly managed, either of
these will yield on an acre an enormous
quantity of food on which pigs, shoats
and breeding animals thrive amazingly,
with little danger of the numerous all
ments that cholera is u handy but nom
sensical name for. Corn is good. we'll
nigh indispensable, but our farmers
will be better off when they fully real
ize that something else is better to
raise pigs on.-Ransas Farmer.
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CONSUMPTION CAN BE CURED!
RRmEi.HALl'S
15DDss1n+zz.BALSAM

Cures Consumption, Colds, Pneu-
monia, Influenza, Bronchial Diff,
culties, Bronchitis, IIoarseness
Asthma, Group, Whooping Cough
and all Diseases of the Breathing
Organs. 1t soothes and heals the
Membrane of the Lungs, infamed
and poisoned by the disease, and
prevents the night-sweats and tight
ness across the chest which accom-
pany it. Consumption is not an in
durable malady. 1t is only neccs
sary to have the right remedy, ant
Halls Balsam is that remedy. DOM
Despair of Relief, for this benign
specific will cure you, even though
professional aid fails.
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THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


lie Cukicate,u, q French journal, says
That IL chloride Of lime be spread on
The soil or near plants, insects and YER
min will not be found near them, and
adds: By its means plants will easily
be protected from insect plaques by
simply brushing over their stems with
a solution of it. 1t has often been no.
ticed that patch of land which has
been treated in this way remains relig-
iously respected by grubs, while the
unprotected beds around are literally
devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded
from the attacks of grubs by attaching
to their trunks pieces Of tow smeared
with mixture of hogs lard, and ants
and grubs already in possession will
rapidly vacate their position. Butter
flies. again, will avoid all plants whose
leaves have been sprinkled over with
lime water.
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Rupture

sherman. He is the author and inventor Of hi
popular system; he inparts his ttciU ron
), Is appncaDle 10 all clasfes and tattf, II Il IN
every one. - ~
Patents can receive treatment ard leave for
nome lhe same day. Dir. Slunan's ECtk on
ituplure gives convincing IlcUis Nom none.
slonal gentle mon and otL,Is If his successful
treatment. IL is Illustrated v it'll IhototIal pic
lures OF bad cases before nd attic cuie ard is
sent TO those who send 10 ents. Pri vol nice.
2Sl broadway, y. Y, Brantl fllce, 4s Milk 'reet,
Saturday. In Boston-W cdne sday, i,,rs, nv and
Friday. Gryy
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WAY OF TREATING A BAD CODA
bad cold will run its course of about
ten days, and may end in con.
sumption and death, unless some means
to prevent are employed at once.
Many useful life has been saved to the
world by the prompt use of DR.. N. G.
Whites Pulmonary Elixir. When sen-
slble of having taken cold, commence
at once taking the Elixir according to
directions on bottle, and you will soon
be we'll.
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The population Of the city proper Of
London was, in 1901, loo, 1859; 1911,
100. 900; 1921, 126, 434; 1881, 125,574;
l64l, 125. DOS; 1851, 122, 440; 1861, ll2,.
o63; 1871, 74,697; 1881, $3.50,
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rs RELIEF AND CURE AS CERTAIN AS
DAY FOLLOWS DAY, WITHOUT ANY
OPERATION OR HINDRANCE

bIhce Inc reductiOn OF DR.. Shermnn's terms,
thousands are crowding upon him Tor treatment,
gihuiy throwing away their gripping, irksomc, dis
piriting and life Furnishing trusses. His treat
ment Tor this anliction makes the patient comfor
table and safe in the performance of every kind
those who are rupturcd and do not provide them
selves with IL must endure the dangers of that
nrccarlous afllicton and the use OF uusscs all
through life. Thousands of those cured give the
most nattering testima annals of gratitude TO Dr
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OF 1T to her overseer; who, with his wife,
sat by her the fore-part OF the night, and
then returned home, supposing that not
much allied her, but ordered Lucy to con-
tinue with her. But when she discovered
she was actually dying, she had not time
to get any of her relatives about her, be-
fore she actually departed
A few rods from her lonely cottage
was ravine by small stream of water,
where was broad rock, concealed and
closely sheltered by the entwining boughs
of several trees and bushes. This was
her place of retirement and devotion
when she had strength to walk so far,
and the weather would permit. The
path leading to this place was worn as
smooth as floor, and not sprig of grass
was suffered to grow in it. Oh what a
reproof is this to common Christiansl
In person she was naturally small of
stature. Her body had withered away
to mere skeleton, and became consider
ably bent with age. A bright eye spark
led In her benignant countenance to the
last. She dressed alike in summer and
winter in the old-fashioned manner, in a
neat white, cotton dress, without flannel
or woolens of any kind in the coolest
weather of the winter-and neat cap
Gtted closely to her head, behind which,
on the hinder part of her neck and on
her temples, one might see the hair pro-
jecting, as white as the driven snow, and
cropped short around her neck. Her un-
earthly appearance was such that she
looked more like the inhabitant of an
other world than this. No one not &C
customed to see her, could visit her and
then Danish from his imagination this
venerable and sainted piece of antiquity.
Thus lived, and thus died, the Hermitess
OF Briery congregation.
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marked by the elevation and grace which,
as they were part and parcel of the au-
thors mind, could not fail to enter into
all the productions of his pen. The dis
cussion is conducted throughout with
absolute candor. No where is there an
attempt to forestall the Judgment of the
reader by raising prejudice against an
opinion to be controverted. The doc
trines and reasoning of adversaries are
fully and even forcibly stated"
The work addresses itself to the intel
ligence, morality, and Christian char
acter of the educated young men of this
age, and of our own country To the
young of the ministry of all denomina-
lions, this book is of great practical use,
especially to those deprived of access to
large Libraries. The doctrines of the
Rationalists, and Agnostics, and the vari-
Gus evolutions of the Evolutionists, are
fully and fairly stated, and clearly and
accurately answered.
The subjects of these lectures are men
toned as an inducement to their exami-
nation:
l. Present Aspects of the Problem
2. The Relatively of knowledge. 8.
Cause and Force. 4. The Argument
from Order. 5. The Arument from. De-
sign. 6. Evolution and Final Cause. 7.
Immanent Finality. s. Conscience and
a Moral Order. 9. History and Moral
Purpose. 10. Personality and the In
finite. IL. The Alternate Theories. IL.
The differences from Theism.
Every subject treated of is interesting,
and of Importance to the believer in Rev
elatlon and the doctrines taught in the
Bible. VIM. ARCHER Cooke,
Florida.
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Good Testimony.
S. L. G.

There is no minister of any denomina-
ton in Richmond more deservedly popu-
lar than DR.. Hoge, of the Presbyterian
Church, or who has larger congregations
attending his services, and that without
making use of any methods save such as
would be approved by the severest Chris
tan taste. Any opinion of his on a sub
ject of the kind commented on below is
therefore entitled to respect. He said to
his congregation the other Sunday, chat
within his recollection the spiritual con-
dition OF the church had never been SO
low as at present; that the church seemed
overwhelmed by spirit of worldliness. I"
We had come to like conclusion seve-
raj years ago. People violate the laws
of God and wonder about penalty com
ing, when penalties must come in some
shape or other. We spend six or seven
hundred millions of dollars a year for
strong drink, and wonder there should
be so much poverty in the land. We
waste millions upon millions in war and
so have no millions to spend in sanitary
science for the amelioration of the peo-
pie and then wonder disease spreads,
and the crimes and miseries incident to
pauperism. We allow men to accumu-
late gigantic fortunes, not causing them
to make equitable distribution at the
time of their death, and then wonder at
the evils attending such accumulation
the consequent poverty among the mil
lions. Of all evils, there is nothing to
compare to such war as afflicted this
country. 1t has changed our customs,
our habits, our trade, our ways of living,
our settled convictions, and it has left us
with one thing more prominent than an
other-the desire for wealth. We want
money with longing our fathers knew
nothing of; so that the man who makes
it is the smart man, the wise man, the
man who is looked up to. 1t was not so
once in our Southern country. But all
is changed now; so that North, South.
East, West there is but one thing men
want-money; to be made not by healthy
trade or profession, but by speoulations;
so that owing to the kind of business,
and the hurry Of business, and the ex-
element to get money, and Just as anxious
to spend it, or to hoard it, or to enter
into more speculations, until the old
fashioned way Of doing business has been
voted cold fogyism" and men are in
tensely excited about things that are to
perish in the using, and have no wish to
be otherwise, or to do or get the right
eousness Of God.
If we could keep this out Of the church
But we cannot. The members of the
church have caught the contagion, and
it has acted and reacted upon them. They
are as anxious as others to make money
by short cuts, rather than by the indus
tries which our fathers practiced. And
with what consequences2 Why the church
is more worldly than was ever known in
this country. And congregations are try
ing to stem the current by disciplining
the young for going to balls, and let the
old sinners alone, who are covetous and
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spectators and mean and stingy, and
whose hearts are filled with the world.
What is to be done? Why if Judgment
begins at the house of God so must godli-
ness. There must be more than "seven
thousand" who have not bowed their
knees to Baal. Should they not set some
better example of Christian living and
Christian liberality? Should they not let
their light shine? Should they not cry
aloud to God, who alone can give help?
We keep saying, in the words the church
puts IN our mouth, "Our help is in the
name of the Lord :" but who is believing
this?
And what is the duty. of ministers
We have had our say so often about this
we would prefer to hear from some one
else, to whom God has given wisdom to
understand the times. 1t is easy to lay
down harsh rules; but we want wise
rules-rules that approve themselves to
the wise Christian. Who will tell us the
duty OF the minister of Christ in the de-
lection that has come upon the church?
Southern Chawchman
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For the Central Presbyterian.
Archbishop Whately's Wit.

This eminent, liberal, logical, learned
Prelate had, among his other loveable
excellencies, ready and genial wit.
Here are two specimens taken from a
delightful article in the October No. OF
the Catholic Presbyterian.
Being told that our best flowers, when
transplanted to the soil of China, lost their
fragrance, he said, L did not know before
that the Chinese were such dissent erS p"
Some one repudiated rather vigorously
his sweeping assertion that we are all
taught religious intolerance and persecu-
ton IN our nurseries. "Think again, Z"
said Whateley, were you not taught as
soon as you could speak to say:
"Old daddy long-legs wont say his prayers,
Take him by the left leg and throw him down
stairs"
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