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The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
Poultry Notes.

To insure good supply of eggs the
fowls should be well fed on stimulating
food, and also be carefully looked after
at night.
Old nests should never be seen in the
poultry house, for lice and all kinds of
poultry parasites breed in them hap
PLY and unmolested, and they will
worry the fowls nearly to death, and in
many cases they (the fOwls) do give
up the struggle for life altogether.
Tobacco is an excellent preventive
of vermin in poultry-houses. Dry the
leaves so that they will crumble easily,
and put small quantity in the nests
Ct sitting and laying hens. 1t will
certainly drive away the lice. If you
have not the leaves, get stems from
the cigarmakers.
If any one thinks he can realize a
large profit from poultry without first
dividing them in such manner as to
avoid crowding he will make mis-
take. They will do better in small
families than in large focks, and the
few can be kept with greater profit
even in small yarl, than the more
numerous, if the latter have the run
of the whole farm.
Many tlagrant errors are made by
poultrymen when they fall into the
custom of keeping hens until they arc
too old for profit; perhaps in Their
younger days they were choice birds
and good layers. A hen of any breed
begins to fall off in egg production as
a rule after her second year, and hens
kept by market poulterers and farmers
after they are two years old are ept al
a loss.
Do not forget to give, at least twice
Il week, a teaspoonful of cayenne pep
per to every twenty hens, and even
more than that of sulphur, and ar
equal amount of salt dissolved in boil
ing water and mixed with their dough
Green feed, as there is no grass
attainable, must be furnished every
second day through the cold season
Ones ingenuity is called into play in
devising variety that is desirable.
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Talmage's Idea of Heaven.

~ wish that to-day could take
heaven from out of the list of intang-
ibles and make it appear to you as it
really is-the great fact of history, the
depot of the ages, the grand parlor of
all Gods universe" said Mr.. Talmage
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle at the
opening of one of his morning ser
mons. The description of heaven
given in Revelation vii, verse 9 and
10, he said, represented heaven on a
great holiday. 1t is impossible, he
declared, to come in contact with any
thing beautiful in art or religion with
out being proiited and elevated by it.
The speaker did not feel like accepting
DR.. Dix's idea, that the inhabitants of
heaven would spend their time in
studying arithmetic and the higher
mathematics, but preferred the state
ment that life there was passed in sing
ing flower songs and water songs, and
sentimental songs, all to the glory of
Christ. If the kingdom of heaven
could be dissolved and the inhabitants
should vote on the form of govern
ment, Christ would be unanimously
elected president of the universe, he
| Thought.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
A Great Tun els. Busine IS.

In the year 1862 63,57S east-bound
and 64,0}6 west-bound freight cars
were hauled through the Iioosac tun-
mel, making a total of l27 sos. 1t is a
troublesome affair to keep in running
order \ gang of miners care for the
roof and sides of the tunnel, and two
gangs work on the track in the tun-
mel and one mile from the portals on
either side. Under this arrangement
no stones have fallen on the track dur
ing the past year, nor in the five years
preceding. The amount of loose rock
found is gradually diminishing, but
this system of inspection will have to
be continued many years to insure
safety. On account of smoke in the
tunnel it is difficult to arrange any sig
III except that which Will make II
noise, and for this reason none but
torpeaoes have been considered prac-
ticahe. No train is now allowed to
enter until the one prece ing it on the
Same track has passed. out, and no
train is allowed on either track while
there is passenger train in the
tunnel
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
Corn Fodder.

Cut at the right time and properly
cured there is no part of the corn plant
but what is nutritious. The stalks
are full of pith that is rich in sugar;
the shucks and fodder, while not quite
equal to the best hay, are better than
any other of the rough feeds. Va
rious estimates are made as to the
value of corn fodder and its merits as
compared to hay. Much depends on
the variety of corn, the season and the
time of cutting both the fodder and the
grass. For instance, some stacks cured
in the usual way contain about forty
per cent. only of digestible matter; cut
in early tassel, sixty per cent. limo
thy hay cut in early blossom has been
placed at sixty-two per cent, while
timothy cut when too ripe has given
by analysis as low as forty per cent. of
digestible matter. Honest farmers
there are who value ton of corn fod-
der properly cured equal to ton of
best hay. Others place the value at
about two.thirds that of hay
Farmer and Manufacturer.
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where no reservations are made in
the deed, the conveyance includes
the land, buildings upon it and
all such clatt els or articles that have
become so attached or fixed to the soil
or to the buildings as to become what
is known in law as fixtures" What
constitutes fixture" depends largely
on the intention of the owner in put
ting it there, and also upon the man
ner in which it is affixed. Anything
so fixed to the soil or buildings that it
cannot be removed without injury.
nearly always goes with the farm; and
anything of permanent nature,
fitted for permanent use, and annexed
thereto by the owner with that inten-
ton, generally goes with the land,
though it might be severed without
any injury, as the following example
will illustrate: All fences upon the
farm go with it, but no fencing ma
terials, as rails, ETC., if bought else
where and piled upon the farm and
not yet built into fence; they have
never yet been annexed" But rails
cut from timber standing on the farm
and piled up for the future use, go
with it; their original annexation is
not severed by being changed from
standing trees to rails. If. however,
they were cut with the intention of
using them elsewhere than on the farm,
they would then be personal property,
and will not pass. The bare intention
in the mind of the owner in this in
stance makes the difference between
real estate and personal property. Hop
poles if they have once been used upon
the farm, are regarded as part of it,
though at the time of the sale they are
stored away for future use. Loose
scaffold poles, however, laid across the
beams of barn, have been held not to BIZ
part Of the farm; so are trees cut OF
blown down, if left where they fall
but not if corded up for sale; the Woo
has then become personal pr operty.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
ashes engaged to be my

friend. "She's engaged to be my
wife"
"Who is? The divine Fanny, the
fairest of her SEX"
"Of course who else should it
be-"
But l thought you couldn't screw
your courage up to the proposing
mark ?"
81 didn't propose"
Guy Barnes stared.
"You-didn't--proposel Then how
could she have accepted you?"
"That's just what 1 can't compre-
bend myself said the puzzled lover.
"We are engaged-that is certain
but can't for the life of me remem-
Der when or how proposed"
But of course you proposed" OBJ
served Guy; "people always do get a
little furried, you know"
"Do they? Well, 1 suppose that
was the case with me. But don't re-
member"
"Oh, don't be such q ninny," said
Guy Barnes, impatiently.
81 wish | could remember Just what
said, though" observed Martin.
And even after he was duly mar
ried he never could quite recall whether
he proposed CT not. But as long as
dear Fanny was all his own what did
it signify?
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
Household Hints.


To prevent sausages from bursting
when cooking, never make hole in
them with fork while turning them.
Oil-cloth may be kept bright when
almost worn out if after washing it, you
take flannel cloth and dip corner of
it in kerosene and rub the oil-cloth
with it. Of course, very little oil
goes great way, and care must be
taken not to use too much.
Here is suggestion which should
be borne in mind: When you have
the woodwork in room painted, it is
a good plan to have about two inches
of the floor painted also; have the
paint the same color as that of the
Dashboard; then if, when changing
carpets, the carpet will not come close
to the wall, the little space left will
not be so unsightly.
A good way to remove dust from
carpet is to fasten damp cloth over
the broom; with this the dust may be
literally taken up. This will be found
useful in sick room, end also in any
room where there are many small
articles to catch dust. 1t brightens
carpet to wipe it off in this way, even
after the usual sweeping has been
done
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.


Charcoal is highly recommended as
preventive of disease in sheep, and in
an English pamphlet the following
recipe for its use appears: The char
coal should be given mixed with the
food, except in urgent cases, when it
may be mixed in water or thin cruel,
and given as drench. The dose is
one pint to every twenty-five head of
sheep or lambs. One-quarter pint per
head for full-grown cattle, horses or
pigs; half the quantity for young cat
tie, and two teaspoonfuls to one
dessertspoonful for young calves.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09

Mr.. II. A. Haight, of the Detroit
bar, gives the following valuable in
formation in the American A9ricul-
turist When a farm is bought or
sold questions often arise as to what
goes with it, md disputes may be often
avoided if farmers know just what
their farm deedS include. In brief
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
1--WE ONLY"

Come, wife, dear woman and sit by me,
For the toilsome day is done,
And many thoughts in my heart are born
With the setting of the sun.
Ay, give me your hand, my patient love,
That my own may clasp it tight;
Not dearer it was in the years agone,
Dear wife, than it is tonight.
Old and wrinkled it may be, dear,
But look you, wife, at the shine
OF the ring that has chung to your finger
there
Since the day that made you mine.
Twas long, long march from our youth to
age,
But Time, be he ne'er so gray,
Can never tarnish the luster, dear,
fHOf the pledge of our wedding day,
Fen SO the truth of faithful love,
Born far in the auld lang syne,
In our steadfast hearts, through veal and
woe,
Never has ceased to shine
There are tears in your eyes, my wife, to-
night;
You are thinking, dear, know,
How strange it is that as shadows fall
We only are left below
We only, to sit at the old hearthstone
In the twilight, dear, of life,
While our children wait at the gates above
When shall we meet them, wife?
Nay, dry those tears, and be glad with me
That the day is almost done,
And father, mother and children all
May meet-with the set of sun.
-Hdrper's Weekly
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Bulk :n Feeding.

The first thing to be looked after in
feeding stock is perfect health. What
ever system has tendency to weaken
the constitution or faint the source of
life is radically wrong and unproft-
able, however much appearance may
be to the contrary. We know very
well-entirely too well-that the COW
can be forced to astonish us with her
yield of milk, the hog to be wonder
in the accumulation of fat and the
steer to be an astonishing noun
tain of flesh at an early age.
Well, is not all this profitable? asks
one. That it may be in imme-
date results, is admitted. The
cow and hog and steer may bear the
pressure without breaking down and
return a handsome profit. But the
continuance of that sort of manage
ment will likely finish the career of
the COW long before nature intended
it should be finished, and sooner OF
later we will find disease attacking our
hogs, and, perhaps, our cattle. Our
treatment of our domestic animals is
radically different from natures treat
ment, AMI is often so adverse to it that
results can but be injurious. Natures
way is the best way Western Rural
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-03-09
DID HE PROPOSE?

"I couldn't do it," said Martin FL
ierslie, with a shudder 1t was just
the seductive hour before the gasjets
are lighted and window-blinds turned
down-the deliciCus twilight when
CRATE fires shine like burning masses
of ruby, and people sitting beside
them grow strictly confidential. 1t
was showing little outside; all the
better, for the click of the crystallized
pearl against the glass filled up the 81
lence, and made the cozy warmth of
the room luxuriously delightful. And
Martin EllerSlie's pleasant brown eyes,
fixed fall on the fire, saw-no one can
tell what or how much they saw
"Suppose she should say no." he
burst out, seemingly apropos to moth
ing at all.
Suppose she shouldn't" observed
Guy Barnes, dryly.
=" tell you, old fellow, its just ex-
actly like having tooth pulled out.
Your friends stand by and say: BE
man; it's nothing It's not they
who are under the doctors forceps."
Complimentary to Miss Glen"
"Nonsense. You know what /
mean. But really and truly, I've tried
and can't do it,"
every WELL" said Barnes. indiffer-
emily; "then it is an understood thing
that you are to live and die an old
bachelor"
81 didn't say that"
"Oh, l beg pardon. You expect
Fanny is going to propose to you;
that's it,"
"You are a heartless miscreant,"
'Ellerslie cried out, half laughing, halt
impatient, as he sprang to his feet and
tossed the remnant of his cigar into the
fire, "and | shall not waste any more
time upon you-unless indeed you &C
round to the fair with me-"
"Where Fanny Glen has stand
Not if 1 know it! The money marke
is rather tight for me at present, ant
these fancy fairs are no more than
den of robbers where a defenseless
young man is concern ed"
And Martin Ellerslie went on hi,
way alone.
The hall was a glitter with gaslight
and fragrant with flowers when h
got there. The pretty feminin
sparks each behind her well-ladel
table, were all smiles and dimples
while the throng of victims ebbed an,
flowed around them.
Mr.. Ellersle found himself greeted
with acclamations.
"You will take a share, Mr.. Ell
lerslie?"
"Do please put your name dow
here Mr.. Ellerslie; there are only te
blanks left"
"Oh, Mr.. Ellerslie, you are the yer
one we are waiting for. have ker
seven for you-seven always was
lucky number"
"Mr. Ellerslie don't, pray. spend a
your money until you have takel
share in this mammoth doll, with
trunk full of clothes"
And thus our hero was flung hithe
and yon on the waves of the fair, draw
ing nearer, however, with every sui
scription, to the table over whic
shone the blue stars of Fanny Glen
eyes.
But when he got there ne was smi
ten with sud len silence.
Fanny looked wonderingly up.
ats fine evening"" he hazarded.
'Is it," asked Fanny. "Why,
thought it was showing"
$50 it is" said our hero, grown
very red. and overturning with h
elbow a crimson Venetian flask, f
which he Immediately had to pay. :
i mean it isn't a very fine evening
"Oh!" said Fanny.
Eyes" said Martin, feeling acute
Delta chief., 1883-08-08
Beecher on Christianity.
Chicago Herald.

Chicago Herald.
.'Some people, Mr.. Beecher. are of the
opinion that Christianity. while it is being
spread actively in heather lands. is get
ting quite thin at home. What do you
think of that idea?"
christianity. he said. '.may spread
laterally or vertically, or both At once.
In some foreign lands it is spreading
laterally. In country long christian
lied. such as this is. there is little chance
of its being extended in that way. The
field has been pretty much all covered.
But it has abundant opportunity and oc-
casion here to spread vertically. 1t can
penetrate deep into the character and
life of an individual and high in his in
tellectuality. Religion may and should
find part, and be received in the sympa-
thies of life. in purposes of honesty, in
disposition toward others. in all emotions
of the heart and in all sentiment and
action of the mind. There in lies the ver-
tical spread of Christianity. Now. l
think there has been an increase in the
country rs far as sympathy is concerned.
Religion has taken stronger hold
of the people in that direction. But in
the line of honesty and integrity there
has been a marked falling off. People
make religion film. veneering on
their character. There's no depth to 1t,
and consequently but little efficacy.
There's not that sterling integrity and
unyielding honesty there used to be.
1t ought to be next to impossible for a
Christian to become dishonest or to lie.
But how many become defaulters, and
how many are careless about speaking
the exact truthp A liar passes to-day
scarcely denounced. Fifty years ago he
would have experienced anguish hardly
describAble. and would have been exc
Grated by his fellows. There are so many
corporations now. These have ten
dency to diminish individual moral re
sponsibility. Five men constitute cor
Delta chief., 1883-08-08
FLOTSAM!
J. Logic ROBERTSON.

From Good Words.
All the mill horses Of Europe
Were plodding round and round;
All the mills were droning
The same old sound.
The drivers were dosing, the millers
Were deaf, as millers will be;
When, startling them all, without warning,
Came great shout from the sea!
1t startled them all: the horses,
Lazily plodding round,
Started and stopped; and the mills dropped,
Like mantle, their sound.
The millers looked over their shoulders,
The drivers opened their eyes:
A silence, deeper than deafness,
Had fallen out Of the skies.
'.Halloo, there !n-this time distinctly
1t rose from the barren sea:
And Europe, turning In wonder,
Whispered, ''What can 1t be''
'Come down come down to the shore here ~
And Europe was soon on the sand =
1t was the great Columbus
Dragging his prize to land.
Delta chief., 1883-08-08

poration, we will say. Strict honesty is
occasionally deviated from, and mis-
representations are made. Each one of
the five feels himself one-fifth of some
thing which has no soul. and does not
hold himself sufficiently individually re-
sponsible. No, christianity in this coun-
try is losing ground vertically. In
some portions it is gaining, doubtless,
but in others it is losing. Religion that
is not based on thorough honesty and
integrity is all mush.'
Delta chief., 1883-08-08

Mr.. Edison is reported as saying that
he is building in New York an electric
engine of 375 horse power, to be used
on the London underground railways,
where the smoke and vapor from en-
gines are very offensive. 1t is designed
to haul eight or ten cars at the rate of
forty to fifty miles an hour. Mr.. Edi-
son is also quoted as saying in Chicago:
About six weeks ago closed my lab
oratory. and have now got the electric
lighting) system worked down to the
minutest detail. There is nothing more
in electric lighting to be invented or re-
quired.''
Comparison, more than reality. makes
men happy, and can make them wretch
ed TFeltham.
Delta chief., 1883-08-08

The track is now completed for dis
tance of 72s miles west of Winnipeg, of
which l61 miles have been constructed
this season as follows: April IS to 80,
1888 miles; May, 5l.97 miles; June,
$3.50 miles, July to Z, 1886 miles.
From the Winnipeg Times: The
record for track-laying on the Canadi-
an Pacific Railway was beaten on Sat-
urday, when no less than six miles and
120 feet of the main line and half
mile of the side track were laid. 1t is
intended to lay ten miles in one day to
equal the record of the Central Pacific,
which, however, as matter of fact, is
not as good performance as that of
the Canadian Pacific Railway on Satur-
day. for the Central Pacific had made
extensive preparations to accomplish
the feat. iron being laid at every point
in advance. The Canadian Pacific Rail-
way undoubtedly has earned a record
for rapid construction which cannot be
excelled.
Delta chief., 1883-08-08

Any editor can write long article,
but the short stop fellow is the one who
hits tho mark the oftenest.
Never mind II we can't succeed in
the star-routc matter, 1t is some conso-
lation TO know that In 'God we Trust"
Delta chief., 1883-08-08
Rapid Railway Construction.

From the Montreal Gazette.
The rapidity of construction on the
main line OF the Canadian Pacific Rail
way in the first week of July is without
parallel in this or any other country.
On Saturday last the rails were laid up
on six miles of road, and in the week
no less than 1886 miles, exclusive of
sidings, were completed, an average of
about 4! miles per day, the highest
ever obtained. The record is as fol-
lows:
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-08
~TeIegrapi:ic Breyifie..

Ex-Treasurer Marsh Il. Polk, Of Ten
ncSsee. yesterday executed the bond Of
S3j, 200, as required by Judge Allen, and
was released from custody.
\ Ne,rS Terrell special says 4 fire at Far
ncy, Texas, yesterday morning destroyed
the greater part OF the business section OF
the town on the north side Of the railroad.
Losses not given.
A Galveston. Texas, telegram says the
schooner VI. II. Rand. OF Philadelphia,
laden with cotton for Vera Cruz, took fire
i'm Galveston harbor Sunday and was sunk
TO %eXtinguish the flames. She l. now being
raised. The damage is estimated at $780,
600.
Addison Samuels, 4 railroad-track fore
man, at Reading, Pa, who was brutally
beaten with a shovel by William Taylor, a
colored laborer whom Samuels had dis
Taylor has fled to Virginia.
Thomas A. Edison and others, repre-
senting a capital Of $4,000, 900, have filed
papers with the Secretary Of State OF New
York incorporating the Electric Railway
Company Of the United States. The OBJ
ject Is to develop electricity as a motor for
the propulsion of railroad trains.
The stable of j. A. Grinsted, at Lexing-
ton, Ky., containing six thoroughbred
yearlings, all by imp. Thunderstorm, was
burned Yesterday, and all the animals per-
ished. Loss, $4,000.
Tho suspension OF the Pittsburgh nall
factories for two weeks, which was to have
cone into effect yesterday, has been post,
noned indefinitely. Trade is reported
good, but the: stocks are still light and i'll
assorted.
The steamer Cydonia, from New York,
bound to st. Johns, n. b., mistook Sank
aty light. at Nantucket, for Grayhead, sun.
day, and went ashore at the west end Of
that island. The vessel remains tight, but
lays in a dangerous situation.
A fire occurred at East st. Louis yester,
day morning by which twenty-five small
stores and dwellings were destroyed, in
yolying a total loss OF about $4,000; in
srIrauce, 100000.