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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-12

Benton carries only life policies, we be-
lieve. He has drive enough for three
agents.
They do say, and we regret to know it,
that some of the boys who have been
allowed to use East street for sliding pur-
poses have been very saucy to gentle
men who have asked them to be more
quiet, as their noise disturbed the relig-
ious services in the Methodist church. at
the top of the hill. The sliding is liable
to be stopped entirely, in consequence.
There are huShed whispers and sup
pressed breathings among the patriotic.
as they refer to the coming month of
March, and its political possibilities. We
have Il law to ourselves. in the matter of
election. Our turn comes after all the
rest. Although last, we are not least.
We get up Il great smudge, sometimes
The questions of dirt and water. of street
commissioners and of water commission
ers, are always in order. Office holders,
like historians, often realize, most sensi-
bly,, that this is a world of change.
No sermon by Mr.. Robertson. pastor
of the Congregational church. has been
listened to more intently than the one he
preached last Sunday morning. 1t APP
pears that the pastors and people of the
Baptist. Congregational and Methodist
churches of this place agreed, by vote. to
unite in week of revival services. The
first meetings were held in the Congrcga-
tional church, and do not appear to have
met the expectations of the pastor. either
in volume or interest. He spoke of the
need of a revival in the church. of the
Indifference of the church in view of the
preliminary steps taken, of his belief that
the work of Miss Woodbury., the evan
gelist, was blest of God, and. then with
fervor and earnestness that could not
be misunderstood, he exclaimed, SIN
view of these facts. our great needs and
your Indifference, before God. tremble
for the future of this church." No church
can live without revivals. The Lenten
season is a recognition of this fact; that
is the revival season for the Episcopal
and Roman Catholic churches. The ne
cessity for revivals is apparent in every
religious organization.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-12
WHITING.

Rev. Mr.. Williams intends to return
here the last of this week to hold meet
ings in the union church.
James Mcdonald has returned home.
He says that he had delightful visit
with his old friends in the West.
Meier Walker is wintering some TWEEN
ty Columbus colts, all good ones. He
has some pairs that are closely matched.
Col. F. II. Harrington OF Brandon is
buying little wool in town. There are
few thousand pounds here that can be
bought when the price suits the holders.
The sick about town are all improving.
There are a few bad cases of whooping
cough. 1t is four months since that dis
ease appeared in town, and almost every
one has had it.
Rev. Mr.. Mayhew's cellar was invaded
by the frost last week and his store of
vegetables frozen. But others in town
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-12
BRISTOL.

F. w. Nash is selling goods at auction
these days.
There is to be Il Masonic levee in the
near future.
Rev. 5. Gardner preached at the Meth
Odist church last Sunday.
E. II. Dunton has his photograph par
lors fitted up in tirst-class style.
The cold weather last week penetrated
the cellars of some of our citizens.
Geo. h. Vending lecture, Feb. l, was
the best entertainment of the course thus
far.
port, n. Y, were in town last week on
a visit.
L. p. Orcutt has so far recovered from
his illness as to make his appearance on
the streets.
There are to be union meetings at the
Baptist church, Wednesday and Friday
evenings of this week.
Geo. W. Gilman appears at Holly hall,
Friday evening, Feb. II, in his illustrated
lecture on Egypt and the River Nile.
Over IA million feet of logs have been
hauled into the yard of the Bristol Man
ufacturing Co. this winter, and still they
come.
y. F. DunShec has bought the stock of
goods of Joel Orvis of South StarksborO.
and one of his clerks. Mr. Chaplin. is sell
Ing them.
Rev. Mr.. Nash. pastor of the NJ. f..
church. has gone to Florida. having been
called there by a telegram announcing
the serious illness of his wife.
The sick list includes James Balm. not
a. well; Mrs. G. W. Parmelee. fail
ing slowly: stephen Bartlett. improving
slowly: Alva Bush. confined to his house
Lewis Bush, gaining slowly.
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ORWELL.

Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Thomas have a son
few days old.
y. j. Wilcox is suffering from a kick
from one of his horses on Tuesday last.
Mrs. 5. NJ. Wright, Mrs. W. c. Hack
and Miss Minnie Cults are about the same
as reported last week.
Our people are harvesting their supply
of ice for the coming season and find it
about II inches thick.
The Jolly Fifteen from Brandon gave an
entertainment at the town hall on We'd
nesday evening of last week to fair
audience. 1t was followed by dance.
The meetings at the Congregational
church are continued and will be held the
coming week as heretofore. Mrs. Car
retson speaks on Monday evenings to
fair audiences.
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WEST ADDISON.
F. W. Fisher and wife have gone on
visit to Beekmantown, y. Y.

F. W. Fisher and wife have gone on
visit to Beekmantown, y. Y.
Shepherd Allen of North Hudson. n.
Y. has been visiting at his fathers.
X. C. Goodale of the east part of the
town took trip to Albany, y. Y, last
week.
Allison Davis has several teams engag-
ed hauling pulp-wood from Snake noun
tain to the lake.
Mrs. Hiram Norton still continues very
i'll. Her sister. Mrs. Matthew Daniels of
Hague. y. Y. is with her DR.. p. Mar
shall of Brdport is the attending physi-
clan.
The farmers are quite busy drawing
hay. straw and oats to Port Henry. y. Y.
Hay is selling at from Sl4 To SIG ton:
oats for 10 cts. a bushel. Straw is s. and
s. a ton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias :. Storrs of West
port, y. Y..have been visiting friends and
relatives in this town and in Wcybridgc
and Bristol. They returned to their
home on Monday.
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EAST MIDDlEBURY.

Mrs. T. lockwood is no better: she
seems to be going into demented state.
1hos. Smith. who lives back near the
mountain, is quite i'll and not able to feed
himself.
c. Gilbert, now on \. Nichols place,
will leave to enter the employ of j. W.
Halliday on the LIST of April.
VIM. Hewitt has purchased the Upper
house near the office; consideration.
$1,000. He will take possession April l.
There is to be a Washington ball at the
Glen house on Friday evening, the 10Th.
The Bristol orchestra will furnish the
music.
Mrs. Wallace Sessions met with an ac-
cident by falling down the cellar stairs,
Wednesday breaking her wrist and bruis-
ing her body quite severely.
Albert Boardman was taken suddenly
i'll last week with indications of typhoid
fever. At last accounts he was more
comfortable. DR.. Ross attends him.
AT regular meeting of Cold Spring
Lodge No. 81, |. o. of G.. r., Feb. 6. the
following officers were installed for the
ensuing quarter by Austin Peck. D.G.W.
c. T. assisted by Mrs. Fannie Judge as
q. W. s., and b. &. Peck as G. W. NJ. :
W. c. r., +. NJ. Day; W. V. r., Eliza A..
Eldredge; W. s., Il. \. Damon; w. F. s.,
Edna ID. Roberts; W. r., c. f. Russell
w. c., Fannie \. Day; w. NJ, Nellie
Arnold; W. |. g., Ellen Piper; W. o. g..
Wallace Arnold; w. ID. NJ, Fannie
Judge W. \. s., Nora ID. Peck W. h.
II. s., Esther Peck; W. l.. IL. s., Lou
Enos; p. w. c. T., W. W. Turner.
At a regular meeting of Needham Post
No. IS, G. A. r., held at their post room,
February 4, 1885, the following preamble
and resolutions on the death of VIM. b.
Cobb were reported and adopted:
PREAMBLE.-Comrades we are reminded by
the absence OF "A brother that he whose call
none of us can pass unheeded has demanded
and taken from our number one we respected.
1t is but fitting that we express the feelings
of our hearts to the Borrowing widow and
friends in the following resolutions:
ReS0tred, That the members of Needham
Post, No %, q. A. r., feel that in the death of
COmrade VIM. Is. Cobb we have lost n valua-
BILE member of our order, the community "A re-
spected citizen, the widow kind and genial
husband.
ResOiUed, That in this atfiictOn we tender our
kindest sympathy to his widow and friends,
and pledge TO each other our mutual promise
to practice his virtues and endeavor as much
as possible TO heal the wound made by our
last dreaded foe.
ResOiUed, That these resolutions be spread
upon the records of the post, and that "A copy
thereof be sent to the widow, and that the
same be published in the Middlebury REGIS
TER.
III. ID. MAYNARD,
j. NJ. NASH, Committee.
O.. W. ABBOTT, }
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County l1ews.
BRIDPoRT.

Miss Alice Barbour is on the sick list.
Mrs. Mary Clark is out of town, visit
ing friends.
The Old Folks concert will probably
come next week.
G.. j. 5. Hamilton, who has been quite
sick with the quinsey, is now able to be
out.
a private horse race is soon to come
off on the lake The parties are all of
this place
On Wednesday evening next there will
be a donation in the town hall for Rev.
Mr.. Marshall's benefit.
The law suit of Tuesday, John Dana
vs.. c. & W. Allen, was appealed to the
county court by w. Allen.
The ladies of the Congregational church
met Wednesday to consider the question
of building new vestry.
DR.. VIM. II. Kingsley of Middlebury,
district deputy grand master, will be
present at the regular communication of
Morning sun Lodge. No. ). \. +. q y.
NJ, Bridport, on Wednesday. Feb. Il. at
p. m, and the degrees will be eXem-
pllicd.
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An entertainment is to be given in the
town hall in this place on Monday even
ing. the 10Th inst. The first part will
consist of piano duets. cornet solo. songs
etc. and the second part of the popular
of which is a fashionable watering-place.
AdmiSsion-25 cents children. II cents.
The entertainment will begin at 40
o'clock, and after it is over refreshments
will be served free.
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were served in the same way. The cold
has not been so severe in twenty years.
1t is reported that II. i. Bissette is to
leave the Stewart farm, owned by George
5. Walker. 1t is also said that Mr. Bis
settle has hired another farm with the
privilege of buying it if he sees fit to do
so. All are glad that he is not to leave
town.
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GOSHEN.

James r. McGibbon is reported on the
sick list
Arthur Smith has been very sick with
typhoid pneumonia, but is now much bet
ter.
Rev. Mr.. Lazerus of Crown Point, n.
Y. preached in the W. NJ. church Feb. I.
in exchange with the pastor, Rev. W. 5.
Hathaway.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-12

No other medicine Is so reliable as Ayers
Cherry pectoral for the cure of colds, coughs,
and all arrangements OF the respiratory or
gans tending toward consumption. II affords
sure relief for the asthmatic and consumptiNe,
even in advanced stages ofdisease.
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KILLING SHEEP.

Sheep improve in flavor with
age, and they are never too old as
long as they are healthy and fat.
In fact they must be two years old
or more before they make what is
called "rcd mutton" that is, mu :
ton which when cooked has red
gravy. 1t is best before killing to
let the sheep remain twelve hours
without food, having plenty of
water. Then, every thing being
ready, cut the Sleeps throat close
TO the jaw and head TO the bone,
inserting the knife into the spinal
column of the neck 10 insure quick
death. The hind quarters should
then be skinned, as they are easily
reached gammon-stick is then
inserted into tho Shows at the
hook when the sheep is suspended
and the sklnning completed. Next
intcstlnes should be quickly taken
out, which prevents the wool taste
50 often mentioned by haters OF
mutton. This taste comes from an
infusion of the excretions into the
circulation after the vital powers
no longer prevent it rs the sheep
has the longest intestInes of rumi-
nants. In killing game experts
always tako out the intestlncs at
once for the same reason. The
carcass of the mutton may then be
wrapped IN the woody side of the
sheepskin without harm, as expert
mcnt will show. The sheep may
be hun: up at once by Irvine around
the hooks and the gammon-stick,
and the Same operation gone
through, but the first process Is
the best.-Toronto Globe.
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Mr.. Edward Atkinson. the writer
on economic questions. has been
investigating the cost of living and
finds that it is within reasonable
bounds, much cheaper than it is
generally estimated. For food,
shelter. clothing, fuel and laundry
work, he figures the cost in Bcs-
ton-and it Is not cheap city-at
S172, leaving within the income
of 5000 a year S2S for sundries and
luXurIes.
OF this first amount nearly one
half must go for food, which is the
most important, the most pressing
and the most burdcnsomc of our
expenses. Rent can be obtained
for $50, clothing for S45, including
comfortable supply and "best
suit" The cost of cooking by
means OF oil is infinltesimal, less,
he declares, than cent meal.
These figures, he declares: arc
not estimetcs but actual facts, the
experience of Mr.. Atkinson him.
self, who has put himself on cheap
rations and secured n cheap room
in order to test whether u man
could live on 5000 a year with any
degree of comfort and he declares
that he has tried il and found il
comfortable. The clerk, therefore,
who enjoys a salary of Sl6.65 a
month, can, if he follows Mr.. At
kinSon's advice and adopts his
breakfast and dinner course, dress
well and faro well generally.
Mr.. Atkinson thinks that herein
lies the solution OF the labor prob
lem disturbing the world. Five
cents saved day per capita Is
81 ,0OO,OO0,000 saved year to the
people of the United States; II
means wealth, happiness and pros
perity. 1t is not that he would
have anybody starve, but he as
scrts that the waste of iood Is the
great economic question of the
present day. In our prosperity
each person wastes little, which
amounts, IN the grand total, TO
hundreds of millions of dollars a
year. In the depression that fol
lows we feel tho result of this
waste. The true labor reform, he
suggests, ais in teaching the work
ingman how to help himself to get
4 good subsistence for less money
than he now spends for a poor
one."-[N. o. es-Democrat.
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Our WHOLE DUTY.


1t may be regarded as almost eff
frontery to advise farmers TO do
better farming rs means of bring
ing them out of their present strait
ened circumstances, when each one
knows for himself that the prInci-
pal cause OF the hard times lies in
the manipulations of other men,
and yet there is sense in advising
better work on the farm. There is
no lack of information as to the
real guilty parties, and exhorta-
tons upon how TO correct the evils
and punish the offenders. We are
doing our share in that direction,
but we must not lose sight of the
fact that, should every political
wrong be righted in a day, there
still remains the battle of life on
the farm. Crops must be made
and marketed, cattle and hogs must
be raised and sold and the farmers
family must be fed and clothed.
We cannot make the market bet
ter or worse. but we can take our
place In the ranks as farmers and
hold it, and thus to very great
extent govern the price ofour own
products. If one man takes to the
market wheat that Is full of chaff
and dirt, receiving four or five
cents below the market price, we
can make ours clean and plump by
good cultivation and good hand
ling, and thus get the best the mar
ket affords. While some men are
devoting four years of time and a
large amount OF feed to tho growth
of a steer that can at best only
weigh 1000 pounds and We, by
superior care, make steer of su-
perior breed weigh 400 pounds in
two years we are getting the very
best out Of the market there is in
it. We are fixing our own position
and if products are low we are at
the head Of the list in prices. If
our fruits, grain, stock and butter
are of tho best we not only get the
best prices but we always find
ready sale, while the poor article
only sells when scarce, and then
at On inferior price. When the
market is more than supplied the
good article is chosen even at a
higher price.
There was time when there
was a possibility of the slip shod
farmer keeping his head above the
water that time is now past. The
world is awake, competition is
keen If one man won't supply the
best butter TO a customer another
will, and lfnne man won't pay the
very best price for Il good article
another will. There is monopoly
sill round except in the work OF the
farm there eyory man is for him
self, and the one that lags behind
is sure TO have a hard time of 1t.
We must neither give ourselves
blindly to crop raising, allowing
politicians TO swamp the govern
ment, nor must we devote our
whole time to politics and neglect
the farm. Tho farmers have time
and Intelligence enough 10 attend
to both at the proper time and in
the proper way. Will they do 1t!
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Snakes IN HER STOMACH.

The wife OF Lem Allen, promi-
ncnt citizen of Churchill county
has been an invalid for long
time. Occasionally her sufferings
were great, and recently her all
ments were most serious, such as
to cause her friends to almost lose
hopes of her surviving. While Ia
boring under the most acute pain,
accompanied with symptoms of IN
hamation of the stomach, the most
heroic medicines were used. After
4 time four snakes of the water
species were taken from her. Ono
was quite three feet IN length, an
other about twenty inches, and
two about eight inches. The pow
ertul medicines used poisoned them
and they remained dead in the
stomach some little time. How
they were taken into the stomach
and survived is a question. For
quite q while the lady seriously
complained of peculiar sensation
as if something was creeping
around within, little thinking there
was any reality in it. Since the
sorpcnts were unwIttlngly poison.
ed She has recovered rapidly, and
bids far to soon enjoy her wontcd
kcalth.-T Reno (Ncv.) Gazette.
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MOULTING.

There are points about mounting
that ought to be understood better
than they now are. 1t takes them
nearly three months to 90 entirely
through the process. When this
begins they are generally sent TO
market, and unless the pullets are
early and begin to lay before the
winter sets in, they will probably
not begin laying before spring, and
the egg crop will be shot. A
better way is to feed the hens when
moulting, and, as all do not monlt
at one time, some eggs may be OBJ
tanned nearly or quito through
that trying period. By a judicious
mode of feeding, connected with a
little stimulating food, we may
bring them through and put them
in fix to lay and develop a good
coat of new feathers before cold
weather sets in. Thus the chances
will be, that if properly housed a
supply of eggs will be had all
winter. From this course may be
gained two advantages Eggs arc
had In winter, when they COM
mand the highest price and the
hens will be the first to sit in
spring, just when the good house
wife or professional poultry
keeper is most anxious to have
them do just that thing. Hens
which have passed the age of use
fulness and those which put of
moulting into cold weather, should
be sold as soon as the facts are
known. There is no profit in such
let them go.-Exohange,
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Catarrhal Dangers

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Gradually some of the mystr1es
of the dairy are being cleared up,
and dairymen's labors are being
lightened by new knowledge. The
pith of this new knowledge of the
nature of milk and the fat globules
suspended in it is this, the temper.
ture is manly the secret of success
or failure in making butter, and
the difference of a degree or two
in the cream when it goes into the
churn is sufficient to produce 4 vast
amount of trouble in the way Of
foaming cream, butter not coming
and butter not gathering. Il
should not be a matter of surprise
that this small variation IN temper
ature should produce such results
when we think that at 33 degree:
all the water in the world IS fluid
but at 80 degrees it becomes a.
hard as a rock, and if this wcra
continued it would make the whole
earth uninhabitable.-N. Y. Times
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Farm and Home.
COTTON PREDICTION.

Tho interstate agricultural con-
venton at jackson, Tenn. has call
cd attention to tho demoralized
condition Of the cotton raising in
terest of the South, IN consequence
of the low prices of the staple pre-
vailing. The convention pronounc-
ed in favor OF diversified crops and
showed how this would benefit the
South. If one-thIrd less cotton
was planted, and more grain and
grasses, more hogs and hominy
raised living price could be real
lied for labor, while the Southern
farmers and planters would be In
dependent of the West in the mat
ter, and be able to raise the cotton
as an extra and profitable crop.
The convention declared: "rhe
time is now propitious for united
action, and we appeal TO the press
of the South, to aid us in our ef-
forts by giving every publicity to
this protest and appeal TO the
planter to raise less cotton and
moro grain" pam
This advice has been given year
in and year out every since the
war; but 1t has never been follow
cd. The South has persisted IN
raising more cotton than the world
needed and raising it at o loss.
In vain the planters have been ad-
vised on this point, In vain the
press have called on them for unit
cd action. There has been no i'm
prcvement. The cotton crop OF
the South has continued to grow
larger, the price to fall, until the
staple has ceased to yield any
profit to its producer, except In
rare cases.
The jackson convention declared
that the present was the proper
time for united action on this point.
This however cannot be secured
by mere appeals to the planters
but only by some organization
Such an organization, we Under
stand, is beng established in some
of the upper river parishes and IN
certain MississIppi.counties. 1t is
proposed to adopt such a plan as
has been found effective IN similar
cases by the great manufacturing
interest of the country whereby
production is Iessened and the out
put of each factory is determined.
A central council will fix the
amount CT land that each planter
shall put IN cotton and in grain
There will consequently bea small
Ter cotton crop but the price OF the
staple will be such as to effect this
and as the food crops will be lar
ger the farmer will be able to cul'
tivate his place at less expense.