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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
THE IRISH LANDLORD SYSTEM.

THE IRISH LANDLORD SYSTEM.
George Moore, the Irish Novelist, in Paris
Figaro.
In Ireland the landlord does absolutely
nothing save to grab all the money that
the peasant can scrape together. | am
an Irish landlord. | have always done,
now do, and will continue to do. lust as
the other landlords, for. it is as impos-
sible for me as the rest of my class to do
otherwise but that does not prevent me
from acknowledging the fact that it is
worn-out system, at war with the 10Th
century and something that should be at
once abolished. In Ireland every chicken
that goes into the pot, every glass of
champagne drunk. every silk robe that
rustles on the street, every rose worn at
the ball, is so much squeezed out of the
misery of the PEASANTS hovcl. \ few
years ago this tribute-for that is what
it is-was accepted without a murmur.
just as feudalism or slavery was accepted
long ago in other lands. But now the
scales have fallen from the eyes of the
ugliness, just as if the inner garment had
been removed from the national body,
revealing the flesh covered with scars and
puStules. This wound, which hitherto
was only visible to few. you now see
everywhere in the most squalid districts
of the city as well as in the elegant and
fashionable quarters.
See that man yonder. ill-bred and
dressed in worn-out suit. smoking a
black pipe at the end Of the weed-invaded
terrace of the villa that he has rented for
the season. He is engaged in conversa-
ton with his daughter, a young girl
whose face is the picture of sadness, and
who is now wearing her best dress, that
skirt of torn, red cashmere. buttoned at
the back. She is telling him that he
ought to give her new costume to go to
some tennis or garden party in the neigh
borhood. He growls and tells her that
he thinks it would be better for her not
to accept any invitations to tennis parties
for the present year.
"What," she answered. ''do YOU want
me then, to die an old maid? You do not
give me the least chance to catch hus-
band; | am not allowed to go to single
! place of amusement, and no young man
is ever invited to be here
! At last the father with a groan draws
forth from his pocket a roll of bank notes
black, greasy and ragged-edge notes that
have been torn and cut in halves and past
ed together again; notes that smell of
chimney smoke, of novels, of the sweat
of the fields and bitches: notes that have
been spat upon for good luck by their
owners at fairs: notes that are epitome
ant in the west of Ireland.
The girl goes off skipping and hopping
with three or four of the greasy notes to
buy new dress and to dream of the
father relapses into his dark revere,
CRASHES his teeth at the land league and
dreams of the possibility of extracting
from his tenants in the autumn what they
refused to pay in the spring; and |, as
beheld the picture-the greasy notes, the
young girl hunting for husband, the
broken-down landlord and the half
tumbling villa, tanned by its garden of
weeds read in all that, as in the cpl
taph on tombstone, the history of il
type Of civilization soon to vanish for
ever.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
GEORGE BANCROFT'S METHODS.
Washington Correspondent of the New York
Commercial AdVcrtiser.l

Washington Correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The venerable historian, George Ban
croft, has returned from his summer
home at Newport, looking as if he was
only 40, instead of 81 years old, picture
of hale and hearty old age. He is to be
seen every morning, rain or shine, on his
thoroughbred mare, with his friend and
crony. A. X. Spofford, the librarian of
Congress, riding at rapid pace into the
country for exercise, with a groom in
livery behind them, and it requires
pretty good horse and Il pretty good rider
to keep their gait
Since the death of Mr.. Bancroft'S wife
a year or more ago, he has done very lit
tie literary work. and his history of the
United States remains at stand still;
but the material to carry the work up to
the wal of the rebellion has been collect
ed and classified. and Mr.. Spotiord, who,
ii is supposed. has been selected by Mr..
Bancroft, and mentioned in his will as
his literary executor, can carry on the
great work from the point where the
master drops it.
Mr.. Bancroft's methods of labor are
peculiar. lie has had his historical data
in the vaults of Il safe deposit company
in Washington for years. When he in
tends to write he sends for whatever
notes or manuscripts he needs, and he
has copies of all the archives of the
United States and several foreign coun-
tries, gathered at an immense cost of
money and labor, and devotes himself
to study until he has every fact fixed in
his mind, with the relating circumstances.
Then he calls in his stenOgrapher and
dictates to him at length, constantly
walking up and down his room as he
does so, generally with his hands under
his coat-tails, or leaning back in his easy
chair with a lohg German pipe in his
mouth. After the notes are written out
Mr. Bancroft devotes himself to the work
of condensing and refining them, often
reducing five or six pages into one. The
result Is then copied and laid away, often
for years, until the subject or the epoch of
which he is treating is complete. Then
he takes the manuscript, goes over it
again in the same manner, leaving scarce
ly line as it originally stood, but re-
writing the whole.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
Farm for Sale

THE Farm in the southeast part
of the town of Shorcham. of late
the home place of William &. Will
son. deceased, is offered for sale
This farm is supposed to contain
147 acres, consisting of meadow,
pasturag and wood land, in dcsira-
BILE proportion. The dwelling
house has lately been thoroughly
repaired and modcrnizcd; and is
neat, convenient, comfortable and
cOmmodiOus. The out buildings,
though not new, are in fair condi-
ton, and entirely ample for the
wants of tie farm. The farm is
well fenced, and has upon it a
young. thrifty and bearing orchar l..
This is fine opportunity for any
one desiring a good home and a
farm with more desirable and fewer
Objectionable features, than the av-
erage of farms. If desired, easy
terms of payment will be granted.
For price and other particulars, in
quire on the premises, of
Mrs. ELIZA WILSON.
Or of E. j. ORMSBEE, Brandon.
Shoreham, Vt, Jan. 20, lssG 5tf
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

of either party, GEORGE HENRY THOEBE
but act Independently He is of German
parentage, and speaks that language as well
as English He was born in Covington Al
years ago When he was only Is years old
he had learned his trade of wood carver, and
he has stuck to it ever since. For ten years
he has been a finisher in the Robert Mitchell
furniture factory. This fact alone shows his
good staying qualities.
Although a Labor party candidate, Mr.
Thoebe is not an Anarchist or Socialist. He
has saved his earnings during all these work
ing years, and owns the neat home in
which he lives with his wife and six chill
dren. In answer to the question what he
thought of the Anarchists and Socialists he
replied:
Il have a wife and home. Any man who
owns property can have no patience with
such doctrines"
Thoebe is u stiff protectionist Sentiment
and gllsh aside, it was undoubtedly Speaker
Carlisles free trade doctrines that did him
so much injury. Covington and Newport,
his home district, are inhabited by mill and
factory workmen.
Thoebe is a fair representative of the best
type of the Independent intelligent American
workingman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
THE LATEST News,

Is that all who have tried Laws Bluing ind
II far superior to indigo nj less expense. 1t is
used for bluing clothes and for bleaching new
or old goods to n snowy white. Also, for col.
oring rag carpets it is uncqualed, and rs an
ink 1t makes one quart, which flows equal to
the best writing fluid.
For sale by Bcckwith x Co., Bond Bros. and
Benedict Bird. %
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
The Late Paul Bert.

At the very hour in which the tenth con-
gress of the American Secular union-of
which Col Robert J. Ingersoll is president
was in session in New York, Paul Bert, the
French minister at AMMAN, was dying at
Tonquin The only thing notable III the coin
cidence was that while the platform of this
union demands the abolition of the name of
God from the constitution of the United
States, the Bible from its schools and the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19


stoned by absence while teaching school in
order to raise money to pay for his education.
His business life began in st. Louis as
bookkeeper for a firm of wholesale
boot and shoe dealers In 1855 he embraced
an opportunity to read law in the Office of B.
Gratz Brown and John A. kasson, both of
whom distinguished themselves later. Brown
was at the time editor of The Missouri Demo
crat. and the young lawyer was obliged to
put in his time Us reporter In 1896 he was
admitted To the bar, settling in Des Moines,
and Immediately attracted attention in his
profession. In 1865 he went TO New York
and became one of banking firm, though he
did not entirely relinquish his law practice.
1t was in 1854 that he made his celebrated
Lackawanna deal in which he secured in one
week control of SIS, oOOO 600 worth of stock of
that railroad, and sold it within five consecu-
tive hours at profit of sl,0OO,0OO. Mr..
White is a member of Plymouth church, and
will represent portion of the city of Brook
Ign in the next congress.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
"DEACON" S. V. WHITE.

Farmer, Teacher, Lawyer, Millionaire,
Stock Broker and Now Congressman.
Stephen d. White was dubbed Deacon
by a reporter in Wall street article which
he headed "Deacon White Goes Hunting for
Bears" and the title has stuck to him tighter
and closer than if, ms no himself says, it had
been imposed by the laying on of hands or
any other ceremonial He was born in North
Carolina in 1881 but his family migrated to
Illinois. where Young Stephen began life as a
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
STATE OF vERMONT--Distric of Adj
~ Iisnn.ss

BE ii remembered, That mt IL session of the
Probate Court holden ut Middlcbury, within
and tor said District, on the Both day of Octo-
Der, \. d. lSS6
Present: Hon. Lyman +. Knapp, Judge.
Whereas, II certain instrument in writing,
under seal, purporting to be- the last VIII ana
testament of sarah VI. Fletcher, late of Middle
bury, in said district, deceased, having been
this day presented to said Court for probate,
and duly filed in the Registers Office: There
tore, it Is ordered, that all persons interested
in the estate of said deceased be notified to
appear before said court, at the Probate office
in Middlebury, in said district on the 29th
day of November, \. Il. lSsG, at 10 O'Clock, am,
by publication of this order three weeks sue
ccssivcly previous thereto, in the Middlcbury
Register, Il newspaper printed ut Middlebury,
to show cause, if any they may have, why
said instrument in writing should not be
proved and allowed, rs the last will and ties
lament of the said deceased.
A. LYMAN +. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
a Q a r. ID.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness. early
decay, loss of manhood. &c. will send a recipe
that will cure you. FREE OF CHARGE This great
remedy was discovered by missionary In South
America. Send a self-addressed envelope 70 the
REV. JOSEPH T. ISMAN. Station d. Neso York City.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

wheat binder at
81 a day. There
came a time in life
later when he made
$1,000 900 in a sin
gle week through
his celebrated deal
III Delaware, Lack
awanna and West
ern railroad stocks.
In lS49 he entered
Knox college, from
which he was grad
uated in 1854. The
delay in matl'icu-
1atipn wns nrpa-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

Can be had upon application to

Can be had upon application to
Judge Lyman f.. Knapp, Middlebury,
First National Bank, Montpelier,
G.. 5. Dowley, Cashier Vermont National
Bank, Brattlcboro,
&. r. Bottum, Cashier Baxter NATL Bank,
Rutland,
+. +. Briggs, Cashier First National Bank,
Brandon,
II. II. Hadley, Cashier National Bank OF Bel
lows Falls,
Ncrgennes
Boston ONCE 81 Devonshire street and 20
Water street. Aims
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
FOR SALE.

Fifty thousand feet fence boards Is feet
long, 3 and & inches wide ana "A inches
thick; 100000 feet good spruce ShinRle; also
$1,000 feet good spruce boards, planed. In
quire of HENRY SMITH
81 1T Bread Loaf Inn.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
WANTED.

To correspond with party having stocked
horse stock farm to let out on shares to re
sponsible party, or will hire by year to right
party. Reference furnished and required.
Address Register office, Middlebury, Vi IS
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

A London lady utili2os the parcel post Ia
obtain poultry FROM Ireland at much less cost
than she couli buy it for in the home market.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19


plished &even more in his way for France
than tAe union is doing for the United
States, Paul Bert was the son of peasant
who taught him above all things a hatred
for religion, which intensified as he grew
and brought him even greater notoriety in
Europe than our own Ingersoll receives
here His mother died while ne was babe,
and showing faculty for scientific study,
young Bert was given an excellent educa-
ton He studied law, and then medicine
He became celebrated as an original inves-
tigator His experiments in "Animal Graft
ing" attracted attention TO him, as was To be
expected. In 1870 he turned his attention to
politics, and was elected to the chamber of
deputies He devoted himself to the study
of the school system of France, it was
through it that he hoped to accomplish most
for the cause which was dear to his heart.
He introduced an educational bill in 1879,
in which he embodied his hopes. In 1851
Gambetta appointed him minister of public
instruction, and here he partially accom-
plished that which he had long labored for.
But lie fcl! with Gambetta. lie was APP
pointed 10 h.s late position only last January.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19
GEORGE HENRY THOEBE.

The Workman who Nearly Beat
Speaker Carlisle for Congress.
II was a striking sign of the times that the
speaker of the United States house of repre-
sentatives came so perilously near losing his
seat in congress to a plain mechanic, a man
who worked with his hands M a furniture
factory. Kentucky prides herself on the
blue blood of her old families. Speaker Car
Isle is a man of whom the Blue Grass state is
as proud as she is of her great racing trot-
ters and with good reason. He is an elo-
quent, gifted and large hearted Kentuckian,
of n "fust family
That such a man came within an inch of
being beaten shows the strength there is in
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

judicial oath, the
doing away of Sun
day and Thanks
giving day, or pub
lie fast days, and
the abrogation of
all laws looking to
the enforcement of
Christian morali-
", natural morali-
ty to be substitute
ed" Paul Bert was
during life one OF
the greatest apos-
ties of these doc
trines, and had in
on accom-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

the movement of
organized labor.
Indeed, George
Henry I hoebe, his
well nigh success
full opponent, i'm
nediately after the
count of votes de
clared his intention
of contesting the
speakers seat.
7 h oe b e "a y s:
"When | go to con
gress | shall not
enter the caucuses
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-11-19

There are now 4,57O, 200 more women
than men in Europe.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22

A new trick in pocket-picking has
been discovered in Atlanta, Ca, where
Hon. Patrick Walsh. of Augusta, was
robbed in crowded hotel elevator by
a Young man. who said: Excuse me.
sir but my waich-chain Is caught in one
of your buttons" 1t was in straight
ening out the pretended entangle-
ment that the larceny was committed.
The fool-klller should stroll through
Fayette county. West Virginia He
would find there farmer who was
recently told by gypsy that II he
placed S25 in an old stump and left it
there during the night, double the
amount would be found in the morning.
He tried the experiment and got his
$50. The gypsy then induced him to
place 500 in the same spot, but upon
going for his 81. 400 next morning the
silly farmer discovered that both money
and gypsy had vanished.
The Indian on Yaquina, Oregon, do
their fishing wholly from canoes, and
in about $50 feet of water. No bait is
used, but the Indians have the shank Of
their hooks covered with block tin, tho
glitter of which attracts the fish, ard
the hook does not reach the bottom be-
fore it is seized by fish. There are
generally two Indians to each canoe.
The beauty of this system to the fish
canning establishment, says The San
Francisco Alta, is that there can be no
great loss. If an Indian or a canoe
goes down, all that is necessary is to 90
up to the reservation and get another
one.
Tons of diseased and unwholesome
salmon are being shipped daily to As
toria, Washington territory, to be can
ned. 1t seems, according to The Port
land Oregonian, as if several cannery-
men are determined to keep up for n
months enforced idleness at the com
mencement Of the season by using
WORKOUT fish from their spawning beds.
Hundreds of the same kind. says The
Oregonidn, are seen in this market.
their attenuated bodies, sickly colors,
hooked noses. and ferocious teeth pre-
senting an appearance anything but in
viting. The sight of these fish slaugh-
tered just as they were ready to deposit
heir ova, and sold TO cannerymen in
his unwholesomc condition, shows that
argent necessity exists for the appoint.
nent of fish comm ssioner who VIII
aave power to put stop to this thing.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22
THANKSGIVING.

Every creature Of God is good, and nothing
TO be refused, II it be received with thanks
giving. | Tim. w. 4.
Dark Skies field and forest bare and
desolate, rough winds, driving rain or
snow! A strange season this, one might
say, for time Of general Thanksgiving
and joy! But it is just the proper sea-
son. 1t is our cold Northern winter
that gives us our warm Northern homes.
Where the skies are bright, men hardly
have home. They live out of doors.
Their society is indiscrminate. But
when storms assail and buffet them,
then they seek refuge, the fire is kin
died on the hearth, and about it the
warm affections and tender companion
ships of family life grow and blossom.
The great home day of the year points
us back to the simple time when all
men were farmers. The great Earth
mother reminds us that we are her chill
dren. The husbandman of the North
did his work with all his heart while the
sunshine lasted. There was no holiday
or rest for him. Careful, provdent,
fore-casting, he had little disposition
toward the merriment that brightens
the village and the harvest of the South.
With serious care he provided his house
hold, and not till every shcaf was gar
nered, every late-lingering fruit gath
cred in, and the fields left bare-not till
then would he yield himself TO secure
festivity and gladness.
To thank the Lord for his goodness.
to gather the scattered family into a
perfect circle, to remember with bounty
the poor and needy-what complete
celebration of a holiday was ever de-
visedP Is not this day as much a gift
of Christianity as Christmas or Eastern
Is il not itself an embodiment and type
of the best blessings for which we thank
GodP 1t brings back to us the first days
of the nation. the planting of the scion
that has grown through bitter tempest
and scorching sunshine to such goodly
tree. Il speaks to us Of the assurance
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22

Of our daily bread, renewed by the per-
petual miracle of Nature. 1t is the day
sacred to the home affections that make
earth most like Heaven. II is the day
that gathers up the thought OF every
happiness and every good, to lay all
in grateful and tender conservation be-
fore our Father.
And into this of all days should come
the grace of Christ's spirit. Into the
fulness of our own joy, blessed and
frightened by the consciousness of his
smile. should come his words, ut is
more blessed to give than to receive"
They utter no voice of ascetic denial
to ourselves of the Lords free gift.
They teach us, by the very height of
our own happiness in receiving, the
nobler height OF giving. And in truth,
it is the nature of all best joy to desire
to impart itself. When our hearts
glow in the warmth of our own fireside,
the abundant plenty and sweet COM
partnership of our homes, then they may
we'll reach out in spontaneous desire
to brighten less happy lives. We may
well take to ourselves more earnest
purpose and more considerable thought
for the poor, the solitary, the friendless.
As we look upon earth's plenty and all
the happiness of life, these words come
tous, Freely ye have received!' And as
we look up in thankfulness, the same
voice bids us Freely give"
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-12-22
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Cughs and Colds, but be sure you get
the genuine. Because he can make
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something just As good, or just the
same. Don't be deceived, but insist
upon getting DR.. Kings New Discov.
cry, which is guaranteed to give relief
in all throat, lung and chest Affections
Trial bottle free at w. II. Howell u
Bros drug store.