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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

An audience of 800 would fill an average
country church full and there are multitudes
of churches which never see such an audi
ence. But 800 was the number gathered by
n single missionary in the southwest in
single month. He organized ten Sunday
schools with membership of BIS. Many
of the families live in small log houses,
having a single room, which is kitchen,
dining room, bed room and parlor for
large family. The children and many
OF the grown-up people go barefoot. They
are experiencing very close times while open
ing up new homes, and they must he sup
piled with religious reading by donation, or
60 without it. These people have very few
religious privileges. One pious lady said to
the missionary: If we could only have
preaching once month through the summer
] should be thankful Our hearts are
moved with compassion toward these people,
who are as sheep having no shepherd" We're
it not for the American Sunday School Union
and her noble supporters many Of these
poorer communities would he wholly uncared
for. The Sunday School World.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

l. Charleston hotel - Postof1ice
9. Pavilion hotel. II. Custom house.
g. Waverly hotel 10. Hibernian hall and
j. st. Michael's church. police station.
g. st. Philips church. 10. Market hail
o. Grace church Il. Orphan house.
T. Central Presbyterian Is. Academy IF Music.
church. ~. Masonic Temple.
s Unitarian church. %. Charleston college.
O. German Lutheran q. Medical college.
church. q. Roper hospital.
10 Baptist church %. City hospital.
H. City hall q. Jail
y. Court house. %. Citadel
To get the situation properly it will he well
TO consider a moment the location Of Charles
ton. It is in the angle formed by the june
ton of the Cooper and Ashley rivers. They
unite here and flow to the ocean seven miles
distant Sea water and fresh water mingle
all in one, and this estuary forms the noble
Charleston harbor, landlocked on three sides
The earthquake came from the sea on
the southeast and throbbed across the beau
tiful, hapless city toward the northwest
What made the visitation still more distress
ing was the fact that only six days before it
terrific cyclone had swept over Charleston
doing vast damage When the dull, awful
roar of the earth tremor was heard on that
last night of August many thought that it was
another cyclone.
Mr. Dawson, editor of The News and Cou-
rier, was III his Office at the time How a man
feels in an earthquake is thrillingly told by
him He wrote:
From the first to the last it was a continu-
Gus jar, only adding force at every moment
and rs it approached and reached the climax
of its manifestation it seemed for few terri
BILE seconds that no work of human hands
could possibly survive the shock. The floors
were heaving under foot, the surrounding
walls and partitions visbly swayed to and
fro, the crash of falling masses of stone and
brick and mortar was heard overhead, and
without the terrible roar filled the ears, and
seemed to fill the mind and heart, dazing per-
ception, bewildering thought, and, for few
painting breaths, or while you held your
breath in dreadful anticipation of immediate
and cruel death, you felt that life was already
past, and waited for the end as the victim
with his head on the block awaits the fall Of
the uplifted AK
Not man in the office expected to escape
alive The shocks began at 1858 P. NJ The
clocks that were stopped by the awful shocks
made the record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

still-all the church to the end Of time. Not
for these alone" but for all who should be-
lcve, etc. ". 20D. Men naturally are selfish.
Jesus unitcs them by overpowering this
!i-hLess aid teaching love. He desires all
believers to be one in aim, character and
purpose, as the Father mentioned here
third time and He are one. This would
prove the reality of His work, the power of
His spirit, the efficiency of His word The
glory w. 2D is first, the knowing God, the
likeness to him, and at length presence with
him in a resurrection body. This was given
in the covenant to Christ; it is given by
Christ to all his people. See in proof ii Cor.
iii, Is: John iii, 49, On this spiritual union
he dwells w. Sl as affecting, by the display
of it. the race. See how John felt this one
ness Il John /, a how Paul felt it Gal. ii, 20D.
V. "a expands the idea of V. % in peculiar
language. Il will" This is his testament,
and the Father is in some sense his executor.
He will have his people ut length with him,
that they may see his glory How Stephen
saw this we learn from Acts vii, 50, So. See
also Thess. iv. H.
When we are earnestly and tenderly be
seeching Il loved one, to repeat the name is
natural. So he says Father again, recall
ing also His righteousness, which the world
did not value, did not know Him, in fact
But His righteous servant knew Him, and the
disciples-representing all the church-knew
Him as sending the Saviour tAgain. the i'm
perfect is better than the perfectl 1t is not
work completed Jesus describes. but one in
progress See Rom. iii, go Jesus v.2G
as He had declared the Fathers name would
continue to declare it. 1t is like our doxology
at the close of a prayer and this for the re-
Vpuling and maintaining of divine love in the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

The bridge across the Hudson river at
Peekskil is not built yet. except upon paper.
1t is not. but it is to he 10y the lSt of January,
ISIS, its charter says. The Union Bridge
company, of New York city-Gen w. c.
Hurd, presdent-has the contract for its
construction.
1t is to be a suspension bridge, patterned
after those at Brooklyn and Cincinnati
Peebskill is picturesque and wealthy town
on the left bank of the Hudson, forty-two
miles north of New York city chiefly noted
for being the summer home of Henry Ward
Beecher. Close by is Anthony's Nose,
mountain 1900 feet high The bridge will
cross from the side of this noun
tain, at a height above the Hudson
river of 1913 feet. This will leave room below
for the passage of ships and steamers Wash
ington Irving in his highly veracious history
says the mountain got its name from the nasal
organ of Anthony Van Corlear. The bridge
will cross from Anthony's Nose to old Fort
Clinton on the west bank. The height above
the water of the towers supporting the cables
will be something tremendous, 80 feet.
1t is proposed TO connect on the west side
of the river with the Erie railway, the Lehigh
and Hudson, the New York, Susquehanna
and Western. the Ontario and Western the
Central Railroad of New Jersey the Pennsyl-
vania railroad, the Reading, the Baltimoe
and Ohio, the New Jersey and New York,
the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, the
Pennsylvania and Slatington and the West
Shore railroads; on the east side of the river
with the New York Central and Hudson
River railroad and the New York City and
Northern railroad-thus giving direct COM
munication with the elevated railway system
of New York city and the New York and
Harlem, the HouSatonic, the Naugatuck, the
New York, New Haven, Hartford and Spring
field, and the New York and New England
railroads; direct all-rail connection between
the great western and southwestern states
and all New England, the western river coun-
ties Of New York and the city of New York.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

The tourist travelling through the Adiron-
dack mountains and in the vicinity
of Upper Saranac lake, n. Y, might
come across party OF four, with
n guide and servant, lunchlng on the
bank of quiet stream. But if the tour
list was unaware that President Cleveland
was spending a month in that neighbor-
hood, he would never suspect that i'll the
group before him the stout gentleman
with the great broad back, covered by
checked flannel shirt, and whose head is
partly hid under the gray SLOUGH hat, was the
ruler of the greatest nation the world ever
beheld Neither could he detect that there
was any more Difference paid to him than to
any other gentleman who might be rusticating
in those woods. And yet to this man is in
trusted the execution of the principal laws
governing 50,000,0O of people. He cannot
truly be termed their ruler, for no ruler in
the world could trust himself among his
people without police or military protection,
as the president of the United States does.
The broad-backei man is President Cleve-
land, and the handsome, athletic-looking
lady in the plain, gray WOODEN dress and broad
brimmed straw hat is his wife. The other
lady is her mother, and the jolly looking
fourth person, the most richly attired MEM
DcT tlle party, Ill llle III
Ward, of Albany. The spot that the president
has chosen for his vacation is the most Sc
cluded portion of the Adirondack wilderness,
twenty-four miles away from the nearest
railroad station. The log cottage which the
president occupies is one that was constructed
10y the guides thereabout in the winter season
On the ground floor are a sitting room and
bedroom, and above the whole is II large attic
room occupied by Mrs Folsom. Here is a
picture of democratic simplicity for you
The bench outside the back door with the
water pail and tin basin for ablution is miss
ing, but wooden buttons are on the doors in
stead of knobs, the bedsteads are made of
pine and bark, the quaint furniture, the
strips of rag carpet on the floor all remind
the president that he is many miles from the
White House and its anxieties. The whole
cabin and its contents, which the president
and party occupies, look as if it could be
duplicated for $500. Quite contrast this
with the palatal mansion which they left be-
hind in Washington with its expenses of over
500 600 a year.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

Care should be taken, in ali operations
of sponging, washing, and cleansing the
skin, not to expose too great a surface Of
the body at once, SO as to check the per-
spration, which might retard recovery
from the disease, or renew the trouble
in some other form. In several varieties
of diarrhoea, dysentery, etc., when the
skin is hard and harsh, the relief to the
sick person from washing with water
and using good deal of soap, is almost
beyond calculation.
In other cases. sponging with tepid
water and soap will be ordered, then
tepid water alone and afterward prop
erly drying the skin with a soft warm
towel. Sometimes when water alone is
to be used, little vinegar added to it
makes the sponging more refreshing. OF
course no one would think of using vine
gar at the same time soap is used. Bay
rum is very acceptable, also, to the face,
neck, and hands of sick people, when
used after sponging or bathing. If not
convenient, some common spirits diluted
with water may be substituted. Halle
Journal of Health.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

Charleston, that during the late war it was
taken down and sent to England so it
might not be damaged by the Federal can
non known as the swamp Angel" The
chime is very old. An incident that is said
really to have happened in connection with
the belfry of st. Michael's forms the founda-
ton of a fine and pathetic poem that is fire.
quently recited by elocutionists. The hero is
a slave man.
Charleston has been particularly unfortu-
nate. War, fire. tidal wave, tornado, and
now an earthquake, have spent their force
upon the doomed city. Several times the
town has been almost ruined 1t is enough to
discourage the inhabitants.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17
THE EARTHQUAKE.
WHERE ARE SAN FRANClSCO'S LIT
TILE SIDE SHAKES NOW?

Earth's Crust Rising and Falling in Bil-
Lowry Waves Over "a Third of Her Cir
cumfcrcnce-Hcart-rcn Scenes in
Hapless Charleston.
OF the remarkable series of great events
that have been happening the world over from
1881 to the present, earthquakes form lead
ing feature And of these the one to be long
est remembered in North America, will he
that which laid Charleston, S. c., in ruins.
1t makes one feel, somehow, as if there was
safety nowhere. If any place, next 20 the
great western plains, was to be considered
safe from earthquakes, it was just that part
of the country which has been shaken up. If
the theory of the cause of these ground dis
turbanCes is correct they ought to he manifest
mostly along mountain ranges, as indeed
they are.
Scientific authority declares they are caused
by the cooling and settling of the earth's
mass. 1t was a gigantic, red hot ball TO be-
gin. 1t commenced to cool upon the outside.
AT length thin crust was formed rs it cooled,
naturally it shrank. That made the crust
crack open and settle, in order to readiust it
self to fit the molten kernel within. The pro-
cess still goes on, and will till the earth is
cooled through. Hence earthquakes. Noun
tain ranges are where the great cracks have
broken the surface and thrown the edges Of
the split up and sideways. When the earth
is cooled through it will be dead, and there
4 4.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

There seems to be no longer any doubt of
the existence of this marine monster. For IA
century or more similar serpents have been
seen and described, but the stories have been
discredted until this summer, when, through
the persistence of the monster in exhibiting
itself, it can no longer be considered myth
In the last century a missionary to Green
land describes such monster, This was on
July 8, 1874 Soon after this the bishop of
Bergen, a member of the Copenhagen
Academy of Sciences, published a Natural
History of Norway" in which he collects con-
siderable evidence TO prove the existence of
this serpent In 1917 the sea serpent was first
seen opposite Gloucester, Mass, and the Lin
naen society of New England, after carefully
investigating the alleged apparition, reported
that it considered the testimony obtained
sufficient to place the existence of the animal
beyond doubt" On Aug. o, 1913, Capt. Nc
Quahe, in command of the Daedalus of the
Brisish navy, encountered a sea serpent. But
this year the monster has been seen several
times, notably off Gloucester on the Massa-
chusetts coast and in the Hudson river and by
highly creditable witnesses. If the animal is
not eventually captured, it is to be hoped at
least photograph of him may be obtained
when the accuracy of cur picture of him will
be established
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

The president is an enthusiastic fisherman.
1t is said that President Arthur excelled as an
adept fly thrower, which may all be, but
President Cleveland will always he known as
the better all around fisherman. He goes at
it i'll lis usual thorough way. He requires
none nor asks any advice from guides. He
listens, of course, attentively to any informa-
ton offered but i'll the Interchange of points
in the piscatorial art he is more likely to give
instruction than receive it.
One of the guides who accompanied the
president on fishing trip last year en-
croached on Davy Crockett with the follow
ing: He said that when the president first
threw his line in Lake Saranac there was
quite a connection among the fish. \ great
trout stuck his head out of the water with a
frightened look ON his wet face and asked
as that you, President ClevelandF' YES
my name is Cleveland "All right, Mr.
Cleveland, | am at your service" The fish
leaped out of the water to the presidents feet
as dead as a canned mackere
This story, other guides claim, is a fabrica-
ton. They hold that the tremendous catches
the president secures is not due TO any par
TALLY on the part of the trout, but to the
skill and attention which Mr. Cleveland
brings to bear ON his rod. Mrs Cleveland
and, under her husbands tutelage, she is
likely to become as celebrated as he in these
parts. In report of one days catch of trout
the presidents figure is put at ll5, while his
wife is credited with 40 more of the speckled
beauties. AS she has had but little expert
ence her success can be attributed TO luck,
though the charming grace with which she
handles the rod should be enough TO capture
the most timid fish
Near the presidents cabin is the Saranac
inn, which will accommodate about seventy
guests. 1t is owned by company of the pres
ident's friends, who run it not TO make
money, but as q sort of private club house.
The telegraph connects the place with civ
ilization.
The president left the White House on Aug.
16, and it is his intention to be back at his
desk on Sept II, Then will the presidents
wooden shirts be put away where the moths
cannot reach them. And the trout without
fear may rest for another season.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

All of us remember the pictures the geog-
raphy books give of earthquakes in torrid
countries-walls and towers toppling over
and people fleeing for their lives. But none
of us ever thought the scene could come to US
in our safe ATTITUDES. 1t has done so, and
now we know there are no ATTITUDES safe from
earthquakes. Just as the pictures repre-
sented the scene in the school books, even so
1t was in Charleston. WoRen were drawer
than the men, it is said, courageously gather
ing their children together and leading them
coolly into the streets, after the men had fled
in terror. This feminine courage in great
emergencies is often conspicuous.
1t was the first shock that did the damage
In Charleston. There were nearly, or quite,
dozen altogether, occurring within the next
thirty-six hours. The shocks came in waves,
as, indeed, everything else does. The first
ones were from ten minutes to half an hour
apart Those who were cool enough to observe
the motion of the tremors declare that the
earth rose and fell like the pillows of the sea-
One man speaks of having seen the sidewalk
rise and fall in waves. The effect on the
mind of thus seeing the loosening of the only
fabric we have always believed TO be stable is
mdescribably awful. 1t is this that makes an
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17


terror in the streets and in vacant lots. In
fants were born in several instances, while
their mothers lay upon blankets on the ground.
The earthquake area appears to have been
the most extensive in modern times. Shocks
were felt from British America to Florida,
and as far west ms Missouri. Gable dispatches
bring the news that on the same night distinct
shocks were felt at Athens, in Greece. The
gas wells at Pittsburg ceased flowing. The
bowels of the earth were shaken up for more
than a third of the planets circumference,
and death and destruction were to pay gen
orally.
The center of the quake on this continent
seems to have been at Summerville, S. c..
This is fashionable summer resort for aris-
tocratic Charestonans, and is twenty
two miles from the city The whole
face of the earth seems to be changed
here. Where before were ordinary sand
and clay are now bottomless cracks in
the mud, bracksh water and sulphur smells.
1t will he a long time before it becomes
known just how many persons were killed.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17
The Two Hundred Thousand.

AT one of my new schools this spring the
very first session giaddened me through and
through: four men in middle life expressed
their determination to lead Christian lives
and to help one another to serve their new
master How many such points there may
be IN Nebraska. know not, where they are
Just waiting for the starting Of our schools
and the invitations to he given. before they
Will give themselves to the Lords service.
The 100000 boys and girls in our state yet
outside Of the Sunday school How can they
be reaChedI'
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17
The School of the Newspa per.

No sterner school exists than a we'll
conducted newspaper office for aspiring
young spirits who wish to air their ideas,
and who believe the public is waiting to
learn opinion before it makes up its
mind definitely upon a subject. Such
ideas and opinions are usually at vari-
ance with those of the editor, and are
set aside, cut remorselessly, or so ridi-
culed as to disgust the ambitious mind
and make it always wonder how paper
can be found to live with such donkey
at its head. But it does live and prosper.
and so does the donkey" it is the
opinion that is sacrificed. This fact
illustrates Coleridge's saying that we
may safely take every mans opinion of
the value of that which he knows, but
should distrust his opinion as to the
worthlessness of that of which he is not
capable of Judging. -Jennie June.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

earthquake so terrible All the foundations
of creation are broken up.
"lt's thing you cannot fight" said one.
That expresses it. All damage done by man.
man can resist. Even in tornado or cy-
cbne he can cling to the earth or take refuge
under ground. But when earth herself fails
us, what is there to dol Man cannot even
ran away for he knows not where the ground
will open next. He might run into the very
jaws of the destroyer.
The best part of Charleston is mass of
ruins. 1t was beautiful city. The churches
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

Gen. Neal Dow was the originator of the
bugbear to the liquor traffic known as the
"Maine law and might be termed its back
bone for the past thirty-fye years, or since
the present law was inaugurated. Gen Neal
Dow is at present in the neigborhood of 20
years, As the portrait shows he bears some
facial resemblance to EnEland's great states
man, Gladstone He is also active and vigor-
Gus but here the likeness ends, for Gen. Dow
is a small man with Il slight figure. The
stern lines of his mouth indicate great ti";,I-
ness of character and this is carried out in
his career. He has been an unflinchinG advo-
cate Of principle throughout his whole lie.
He is to-day one of the principal leaders in
the movement TO establish an Independent
national party which will have for its plan;
the prohibition Of the sale or manufacture
of spirituous liquor, except for the use of the
arts and medicine in this country This party
he claims will hold the balance of power in
the presidential election OF 1855.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

ton, h o w e V e +,
is the picturesque
old st. Nlichael's
church. II was de
signed as long ago
as l'j2 10y a pupil
of Sir Christopher
Wrenn, the arch
itect of st. Paul's
in London. In the
n o W demolished
tower of the ven
cradle church hung
the sweetest chime
of bells upon the
continent. So ia
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

In such calalnlties
it is found out how
generous h Il m "A II
nature is. Aid has
poured into the
stricken city from
all quarters.
The tall, slender
spire of st. Philips
Episcopal church
stands the highest
in the city. In its
graveyard lies the
body of John C.
Calhoun. On its site
the first church in
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17
THE SEA SERPENT.

Portrait of the Monster from Descrip-
tions by Capt. Robert Brush.
From a careful description of Capt. Robert
Brush, of the schooner Mary Ann, we are en-
abled to present our readers with an accurate
engraving of the sea serpent seen in the Hud-
son river by the captain and by many others
on several occasions since.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

High bridge is one of the great bridges of
the North American continent Its three
spans are together ,125 feet long 1t is 27G feet
high The idea of a bridge at this romantic
spot is more than generation old. 1t was
first attempted to be carried out by the Lex
ington and Danvile Railway company. They
planned a suspension bridge. The president
of the company had such faith in it that at
his own expense he constructed the towers
that appear in the illustration. Then the
organization failed, and the towers stand to
this day monument of blasted hopes.
The Cincinnati Southern company bought
the road bed of the former concern and built
across the river bridge of the ordinary con-
struction, in which the towers were not util-
lied.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-09-17

now missionary of the American Sunday
School Union has begun work in Wyoming,
which has an area equal to New York. Penn
sylvania and Massachus It's confined The
population is said to have increased 500 per
cent III five wears.