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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26
WATERFOWL LIVE STOCK.

Amount of Live stock ut Market.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26

Following is the customs report for the
district of Vermont for the month of Jan
uary: Value of goods imported for con-
sumption, 1924, SS2; duties, $5l ,064.S7 I;
for warehouse and transportation, S34,-
279: duties, $l7,5l6.71; for transporta-
ton and expectation, 1919, 403; and du-
ties, 5000; value of domestic exports,
$l22,4
John White, "A passenger brakeman,
was badly hurt at Essex Junction ON
Monday. lie was under the car trying
to couple the air brakes, while the train
was moving slowly backwards. In some
way his foot was caught between the
rails, and the car wheel passedup through
the middle of his leg, nearly to the knee,
splitting it open horribly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26
THE CREAMERY QUESTION AGAIN.

MIDDLEBURY, VT. Feb. %, lSS6.
Editor RegiSter:-I ask the favor once more
of space in your columns to reply to Mr..
Douglas and Mr.. Evarts' letters in last weeks
REGISTER. OF course it is gratifying to Mr..
Douglas self-complacency to feel that his
points have not been controverted, but ii
seems to me that it would be quite as well to
let some one else decide that point. Suppos-
ing there are IL few Cooley creaners which
are not used is that any argument against
their merits when there are between $1,000
and 10000 averaging 20 COWS each) in almost
daily use in this country: In regard to the
Massachusetts and Connecticut creameres,
which quoted and great many others, are
paying their patrons from - to L. cents
per quart tor their milk, or rather for the
cream taken AT the farm and the milk left
there in the best possible condition to feed to
stock.
In referring to the party in New Haven who
received only about onehalf Tor his milk the
month he carried ii to the creamery rs he did
when he made the butter at home, Mr.. Doug
las says he "believes it is IA pure canard." will
only say in reply to this that am surprised
that MrDouglas should lower himself enough
to make such remark II is evident that
Mr.. Evarts knows who the party is and that
ii is true. Unnecessary to satisfy Mr.. Douglas,
| can get the party's permission to give his
name In reply to Mr.. Evarts, will say that
did not use rs II part of my own production
a circular issued by the Vermont Farm Mach.
inc CO., though it appeared so in the article.
fused quotation marks, but, by an oversight
presume, they were not inserted in printing.
have no doubt that Mr.. Douglas and Mr..
EVarts believe rs they say they do, that the
centrifugal machines are the best; but the
proofs that the Cooley creameris the standard
milk setting and cream raising apparatus OF
the country continue to multiply. one OF
the strongest proofs that this is the case is the
tact that all the other milk setting apparatus
and the centrifugal machines advertise that
they can beat the Cooley. If the Cooley was
not the standard why would they be so anx-
ious to beat it,. And because OF this attack
on the Cooley, feel that its friends have n
license to show the difference between these
separators and the standard Cooley.
They have persistently mistold the facts for
the purpose of making their machines appear
better than the truth will bear them out For
instance, they advertised that Mr.. Havemyer,
proprietor of IA celebrated farm in New Jersey
found the separators to produce more butter
than the Cooley dreamer. Upon investigating
il was found that Mr.. Havemeyer never own
ed a Cooley dreamer, but did borrow one of IL
neighbour and ran it IA short time in the warm
weather without ice, which is not according
to directions, the water was not cold
enough to reduce the milk to As degrees. Then,
later, in cool weather, he tried a centrifugal
machine which produced more butter in the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26
MARKET S.


At Ncrgcnncs saturday, Feb. 30, was dull.
New butter 20 a 24c T. II; eggs 2Oc = doz
beans, 81 $l3j y BUSH; apples, 81 sl.5O
y Dbl; potatoes 81 a ijc " bushel; beef, a DC
y II; pork, : SIC y H. hay, so sl3 y ton;
extra, light straw, all Sl3 r. ton
BOSTON PRODUCE.
Butter is steady and the demand is fair. We
quote extra Northern creamery ut Is a SOC,
choice at a a PIC, and good to choice at Is a
DC Y III. Western creamery at - a 3}c for cN-
ira, - 4 3Oc tor choice and u pc for good to
choice. Extra Northern dairy sells AT - q BE
and choice at Is a l9c: Western dairy at Is a
22c for choice, ana 10 l5c for fair to good !;
imitation creamery at "a PC for extra, and
10 2Oc for good to choice. Cheese is in mod
crate demand, and we quote extra ut 10 Il
l0lac; choice ut q 9iac, and common to good
at a Sc T. ID. Eggs are in good demand !;
prices are firm, with sales of extra Eastern at
22ia 23c fancy at % a 24c; New York and
Vermont at y a BE, and Western at 20 a 22c v
dOZ. Beans continue steady, and We quote
Vermont ut Sl.75 sl.sO, New York at 81 TO a
lGj and medium at Sl.45 l-l0 y bush. for
handpicked. Canada Peas are steady ana sci
ling in small lots ut SIC 81 T. bush. rs to
quality. Potatoes are steady and in good de
Inand, with sales of Rose mt 81 u 7jc, Hcbrons
at 80 soc y bush and sweet ut $3.50 2.75 T.
Dbl Dried Apples are selling in small lots of
evaporated nj &c " n. Green apples are in
fair demand with sales of No. Baldwins
mostly at Sl.5O although some 90 rs high rs
Sl7j b. Dbl. Poultry is quiet and weak, with
sales of choice Turkeys ut l0ls lie, and
Chickens mt 10 lie v N.
BOSTON WOOL.
There has been IL quiet market tor domestic,
and in prices no weakening. Foreign wool is
in fair demand and firm.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26
Number from the several states.
sheep
md IIAt.-


Number of cars over different roads-Boston
and Maine, |; Boston and Lowell ~; Fitch
burg 326; Eastern 5; total 80.
Prices of Market Becf-A few choice $500;
extra $3.50 a7.75; first quality - 7.25; sec
ond quality 500 u $50; third quality $500 9
40
Prices of Store Cattle-W orking Oxen pair
from 800 dSlSj; FaTow Cows SIS a $50; Fan
cy Cows $50 a $50; Mich Cows and Calves
from ~ SIS; yearlings $40 sis; two years
Old sl4 q SIS; three years old s2+ a $40.
Swine-Western tat live47s q sac; Northern
dressed hogs 5Alc.
Prices OF sheep and Lambs-In lots, So
$500 a S4.OO.each; extra $500 5.25, or from
pa 54ceb.
Veal Calves IA 6iac Pm.
Price of Hides, Tallow ana Standardization
Hides ~ a Sc v n; Brighton Tallow 4C
Kb; Country Hides 7Ilc " n; Country
Tallow IA q 2Ac v n; Calf skins lie y o.
Pelts 75c a &l.l5 each; selected sl,25 Q l.5O
Dairy skins so 75c each,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26

How often we hear midle-aged people say
regarding that reliable old cough remedy y.
II. Downs Elixir: "Why, my mother gave it
TO me when was II child, and | use it in my
family; ii always cures" Ii is always guaran-
tccd to cure or money refunded.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26

Every mother should have Arnica \ Oil Lin
imcnt always in the house in case of accident
from burns, scalds or bruises.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-02-26

Costivcncss can be permanently cured by
the.usc of BaXtcrs Mandrake Bittcrs.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
To,linr the Bell for Elsie Venner

These who read The Atlantic Monthly
| in 1859 will remember that the install
ment of the story which describes the
death of Elsie Venner began with the
toll,ng of a bell This number of the
monthly had been looked for in the fam
/ ily with nervous anxiety
/ When 1t came, the mother and the
daughters dropped everything else and
sea:e,l themselves to listen to the reading
by one of the boys. The author repre-
sented the church bell tolling or striking
the age OF some person who had just
died. and the villagers as counting the
strokes. with comments as to all the per
sons sick in the neighborhoOd. As the
strokes go on to fifteen, sixteen, seven
teen. there are leaks in the narrative.
At each one of these strokes the mother
became more ana more excited. and at
last. when tine hell struck the age Of the
heroine of the story. she said. without
waiting fer the reader. Elsie Nenner is
dead; am going TO faint and faint she
did. She was sick some days, and the
doctor ruled that no more of the story
should be read 10 her: but she insisted
that she should hear il to the end. and,
strange as il may seem, the reflections
following the announcement of the
death of Elsie Venner gave her great
comfort and cleared her mind of the
vague superstitions that had haunted her
for wears. Inter Ocean.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13

professors, doctors, ana lawyers IL
average ability. judges, the civil and
military officers of the middle ranks,
engineers, priests, journalists, and, in
fact. men of all professions to which are
admitted only those who have received
higher education. are working hard to
make both ends meet.
The common salary for the these men
only is about 1000 roubles a year.
Twenty-Five years ago that amount of
income was considered sufficient, but the
conditions of life have greatly changed
since then. Still. the imperial govern
ment sticks to that Z, 900 roubles standard,
and the result is that the highly educated
and Woodworking men, who in all other
countries earn comfortable living, here
in the cars country are miserably poor.
always trembling for the fate of their
families. am told that most of the
professional men of this country, when
they die, are buried by subscriptions
among their friends, and that their
families become paupers.
The car controls the amount of salary
of his officers; and all the educated men.
except merchants, are somehow imperial
officers; but his majesty can not control
the price of the necessaries of life, and
hence the trouble.-St. Petersburg
letter
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
What a china,nan Saws Of Wagner

1T is unjust" said Chinese gentle
man TO whom the writer had given his
opinion of Chinese music Our music
is good-beautiful. 1t is yours which is
bad. Your music is false-not like ma.
ture Music is color. You take all your
pots of paint and let them run together.
You make confusion. The wind doesn't
make music the way you say it does! A
bird doesn't sing that way! A wave
lumbles on the shore. and makes one
note-and only one. Yours is music
that is only noise. You play so soft that
if want to hear sometimes must strain
my ears. Why should 1 trouble myself
to hear. Must use an instrument SO as
to listen: Must think to hear? Why
d,n't you paint picture so that l can't
see il? If you make it too small don't
want to see ii.
Yet hear once Wagner. l go. too.
into shop in Scotland where they made
a steamship for my government. The
men they hammer on the boilers. That
was better than Wagner. l heard a
blind man the other day He fiddled at
the corner of the street. You laugh:
Yes, sir, that gives me pleasure. We are
simple people-and we are not going to
change our music-founded on rules
which are 1000 years and more old.
Why, when my ancestors sang melodi-
ously, your forefathers were cannibals
and howled with the wolves. New
York Times.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
How Apoplexy Affects a Man.

people are in the habit" says DIR. Nc
Lean, Mr.. Vanderbilt's physician. -of as
sociating apoplexy with high living. But
that is not borne out by experience. and
it is entirely erroneous with reference to
Mr. Vanderbilt. l never knew man
who ate less or more simply. He very
rarely ate meat, never took rich food or
hot breads, and usually partOok only OF
farinaceous food and milk. He never
drank wine or ardent liquors, nor did he
ever use tobacco He was not, in any
sense, a high liver. Apoplexy is an af
lection of the blood channels. Lime Sc
cretions from the blood are deposited
against them. causing them to lose their
India-rubber-like quality and grow brit
tie. In this condition they snap easily
Everything may be all right only a mo-
ment before the end. but last straw
will break the camels back. and a last
movement will snap the blood-vessel
when in this condition of brittleness. -
The Aryonaut.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
The Physician Of the Future.

In my opinion the practice of medicine
will be revolutionized within the next
few years. We will live to see the stu
dent and successful practitioner of to-day
retire altogether from the actual practice
of medicine. and establish himself as a
consulting physician only. The learned
surgeon or physician of the future will
devote more time and attention to the
prevention than to the cure of disease. 1t
is no great trick to learn to set frac-
tured bone or prescribe dose of salts.
Such things will be relegated to class of
practitioners about on a par with what
are now called nurses.
Hygiene and sanitation will be the
study of the physician of the future. OF
course he must have a knowledge of
drugs, anatomy, physiology and such
matters. but his office will be that of a
consultant. The bone-setters and drug
prescribers will lay their cases before
him. and he will advise them pretty
much as the advice of an old established
counselor at law is sought by an attOr-
ney. The great question of the future
will not be SO much the cure as the pre-
vention of disease-Dr. Montrose a.
Pallen.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
THE CARS EDUCATED POOR.
Russians Of High Station Who Fear Il
Meet Their Grocers and Tailors-

Russians Of High station Who Fear to
Meet Their Grocers and T.iiors.
A few DAYS ago I saw regiment Ct
he Imperial guards drilling in the Mars
ield. preparatory to a grand review TO
- held on the day of Epiphany. The
colonel in his gli.tering uniform, riding
On fiery charger. made beautiful
picture. and could not help expressing
nv opinion TO Russian reporter that he
the colonel occupied an enviab,e posi-
:ion
ION the drilling grounds answered
the reporter. he is indeed grand fig
IRE. but in private life he is as poor :
devil as the rest Of US. He belongs ts
the honorable but miserable class Of the
educated poor. You ought 10 see tins
brave Col. n. trembling before a lanitor
who comes to collect the rent which has
been two or three months due.
On the hint Of my comrade made
little study of the educated poor IN this
capital. learned Of judge Of the dis
trict court who. as a rule, leaves his
house By backyard door for fear OF
meeting clerks from the various store
with their bills. / WAS told that Pro
fessor R. of the college of this city. hav-
ing big family, never changed his
rooms without the policies assistance
other words, he was usually turned oui
by landlords for non-payment Of rent
saw . chief OF one Of the numer'
Gus departments Of the imperial admin
iSsration, who lives in distant suburb
and comes TO his department by the
O'Clock freight train though the Office
hours begin at 81. for he is unable to pay
the fare charged in passenger trains
heard Of several captains and ma sors
who never see their salary, for II s col.
lected by landlords and different ssores,
I have found cut that. IS . rule. The
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13


Apropos of Victor Hugo, there has
been installed in the foyer of the Theatre
/ les Nations, a CURIOUS collection of relics
of the deImct poet, including not only
the pen that he was accustomed to use,
bat also tin lantern that he was wont
to light his steps with at night during
his sojourn at Guernsey. The great Gu
-ioslty of the exhibition is series of
the poets drawings. They are
wild. fantastic and original. full
of imagination, and showing a
sort of tempestuous ardor in the execu-
ton. Had not Victor Hugo been born a
great writer he would have rivaied Gus
tave Dore on his own ground. But he
was destined to write Les Miserables, y
not 70 illustrate Dante.
There are a number of portraits shown
representing the poet from his earliest
days ~ the close of his career. They
look for the most part strangely unfamil-
lar to those who have only known the
old man eloquent" in these latter years.
The massive head, subhmely picturesque
with its snowy framework of profuse
locks and ample beard, is hardly to he
recognized in the smooth faced young
man with tie dome like brow that wrote
"IIernsni" and "AiarloL Deiorme" He
did not let his heard grow until he was
81. The letters AMI autographs shown
in glass cases are especially interesting.
One of these is the dedication of Les
Miserables" to the child actress. little
Daubray. who played Cosette in dra-
matte version of the work.-Paris Cor
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
Cosmopolitan Character Of bombay.

The cosmopolitan character of Bonn
bay, with its 800, 900 inhabitants, is indi-
Gated by this paragraph from mission
ary's letter: Last week a Greenlander
called seeking work. Two days after a
man from Australia wrote ME asking a
favor. A few weeks ago West Indian
came to attend repairs on my house.
Last Sunday night preached to a con-
gregation in which sat, side by side, a
Russian from the Baltic and an Armen-
ian from the foot of Mount Ararat
Among my Pensioners is an Abyssin-
ian, Turks from the Dardenelles, Greeks
from the Adriatic, Sidhee boys from
Zanzibars. Norwegians and South
Africans live, do business and die in this
human hive
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
SOME FACTS ABOUT THE HINDoos
synopsis Of . Missi0nary's Lecture on
Their Relief and Characteristfcs

synopsis Of . Missionary's Lecture on
Their Beliefs and characteristics.
The Rev. DIR. II. L. Scudder, lecturing
on India, said the Hindoos had two great
beliefs. One was the doctrine of fate and
the other the transmigration of souls.
According to the former man was mere
puppet, for with them everything was
settled by fate and everything was the
result of what they termed the decree of
the Lead. If Hindoo did bad thing it
was fate that impelled him, and he had
to do good or i'll as it was decreed.
The doctrine of transmigration was the
hardest thing to get out of their heads.
They believed that a good life here
meant an exalted birth and high station
in the other world. If man lived a
mixed life here he would come back as
a man again, but if his life were totally
bad he would come back as a tree or
mineral. Their code prescribed special
birth for each sin. One who stole grain
would be born rat, if he stole fruit he
would be born a monkey. if he stole from
a Brahman he would be born over again
1,VW tAu1co oilu csaSu tillAC tsAhc lilc lci Ia
of spider. There was no escape from a
predestined birth.
The Indians We're noncOmmittal, but
very inquisitive and loquacious to a de-
gree. When one refused to talk he be-
lied his races record. Their form of
reasoning was analogical, and. like all
orientals, they preferred smile. Many
of them were possessed of great meta
physical acumen. They were the great
est liars on earth, and could lie one out
of almost any belief. They We're sunk in
vice to a low degree.
The worship of snakes was quite com
mon, and they believed the cobras had
separate world to themselves. Snake
charming was hereditary profession,
and they lured cobras from their holes
to destruction by playing softly on a
flute.
The women were weak and vicious
and by nature unfaithful, but were pos
sessed of great lingual 1exibility, being
able to out-talk their iege lords at will.
No language could describe their degra-
dation. Women there had but one god,
her husband, and her only religious act
was to be his slave.-Chicago News.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
Tunnel Under the River Severn

An engineering feat Of more than ordinary
Importance is the completion Of the railroad
unnel under the river Severn that considera-
by lessons the distance between the South
Wales coal fields and those ports and mar
,ets where large amount Of Welsh coal is
required. This new tunnel is four and half
miles long, and being ventilated on the fan
iystem. the air is sufficiently clear to admit Of
daylight being seen for . distance Of two
miles from either entrance The tunnel is
rot vet quite completed, as the necessary ven
ilation viii require larger tan than the one
,ow in use, and the pumping machinery Is
rot vet in thorough working order. while .
God deal Of work on the new sidings and APP
roaches is necessary for the full develop
nent of the tra6Rc-San FRANCISCO Chronicle
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
INSTINCT AS A HEALTH GUIDE.
Professor Felix L. Oswald's identifying
In the Face Of the Schools.

Professor Felix L. Oswald's Ideas-Flyfn6
In the Face Of the Schools.
A curious article in the last number Of
The Popular Science Monthly is that by
DR.. Felix l.. Oswald, treating of @Instinci
as Guide to Health What particular
theory of medicine this physician pur-
sues we do not know, but it is very plain,
from what he says, that he generally es
teens natural instinct above drugs, and
believes the animal system. when not en-
tirely disorganized, may be relied upon
in the majority of instances to free itself
from disorders. He makes the rather as
tonishing statement that the principle of
medical reforms during the last 200 years
has been restored trust in the compe-
.ence Of our natural instincts. The SIM
pie teachings of the senses, the protec-
tive intuitions, have anticipated and en-
forced hyglenic reforms to the direct
overthrow of so-called science approved
by the tradition of ages.
This doctor who seems to be flying in
the face of the schools, is of the opinion
the natural man is provided with inclin-
| atoms and aversions that inform him of
good or warn him of evil, but with few
exceptions, and those the results of
science, throughout his entire experience.
Intemperance of every description comes
of persistent disobedience to the COM
mands of instinct As the appetite
Graves food, inviting man to eat, SO does
the satisfied stomach admonish him
against excess. The normal palate alb
hors alcohol, and the baneful passion to
which that repugnance can be forced to
yield is So clearly abnormal that only
the infatuation, of the natural depravity
dogma could ever mistake 1t for a
natural appetite.
In the same way instinct always OPP
poses the abuse of drugs, as it does the
decisions of asceticism and suicidal
follies Of fashions. The overloaded
stomach rejects food; the exhausted sys-
tenn refuses other compensation than
sleep; the fever patient pants for re-
frigeration; the lungs rebel against witt
ated atmosphere and insist on pure arr
the sick body repines for particular cor
rections, just as the Over-taxed brain
builds images of the mountain, the rush
ing stream. the verdant fields; but when
has instinct ever clamored for drugs. :"
1t is true. however, that instinct can
adapt Itself to abnormal circumstances.
but it is then rather perverted than
obedient to its true missions; and in the
Use of remedial drugs it is fact that
instinct protests SO persistently that
ninety nine of hundred are introduced
into the stomach -only by such puzzles
as lozenges and sugar-coated pills."
The trouble is that instinct has been so
long ignored, and the race has become
SO addicted to the habit of drugging
physical ailments. that it will require a
generation or two of rigid discipline and
intelligent abstinence to produce the re-
form that eventually shall atone for the
grievous heresies of the past. We do
not know always how to distinguish be-
tween our instincts and the appetency
that is due to their perversion.-Inter
Ocean
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-13
sinking Under Deep Sea Pressure.

1t may seem little surprising 70 a
careless observer. but il is nevertheless
true, that piece of iron or any heavy
substance will rapidly sink to the bottom
of the sea even i'll the deepest places.
However great may be the pressure pro-
duced at great depths by the superincum-
bent mass, the specific gravity of the
water is bu: little greater than at the sur
face. Hence. such substances as stone.
sand. mud. clay. shells. etc. exist at
great depths with little variation, except
from the effects of decreased light.-Ar-
kansaw Traveller