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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13

This question of the rivalry of the
east and west" continued the gentle
man, grows more important every year.
The Atlantic seacoast, with New York as
its head center, becomes more and more
antagonistic to the interests of the west,
and it is only question of time when
there will be great party of the east OPP
posed to one of the west and south. The
elements for such parties are forming,
and it seems to me when they crystal
lie that the reign of New York will be
for the time over and that the great
west will rule. The west has now the
major part of the voting population of
the United States and it is in the infancy
of its growth while the east is far adj
vanced."
Might such state of affairs lead to
the moving of the national capital to
the west or center of the country"
mo! Washington City will continue
to be the capital of the United States as
long as the Union lasts. The railroad
and the telegraph have made all parts of
the country near to each other, and
there is not the reason for a central
capital as in the past. If you will look
over the world you will find that the
great capitals are seldom in the center
of the population over which they gov
ern. London is in a corner of Great
Britain, Paris is in the north of France,
Pekin is in the east of China, Berlin is in
the north of the German empire, and st.
Petersburg is away off on one side of
Russia. Then there is too much money
invested in Washington, both by poll
ticians and the people, to ever allow of a
change of the capital. The senators and
representatives now own private prop
erty in Washington running high into
the millions, and there will always be
large individual interests owned by the
men who control such movements. The
government buildings of Washington are
worth at least 800, 100000, and the
parks are worth many millions more.
Then there are the historical associations
of nearly 100 years of our government
No, don't think the capital can ever be
moved, and l don't think it should be-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13

New York provides literally for its
great unwashed" in fleet of eleven
free baths which are moored at different
points in the East and North rivers.
These baths are big brown houses, look
ing like half of packing box with two
doors on the land side from which egress
and ingress is had to the baths. These
boxes are moored with two strong cables
and ride at anchor. The largest of them
is at the battery, and and resembles the
old picture-book representations of
Noah's ark, with the American flag fly
ing from the peak.
Access to these baths is had by means
Of broad gang-plank, and an unruly
rush is prevented by the presence of a
big, good-natured policeman. The baths
are open from in the morning until 8
at night and are a popular resort for all
the men and boys who can not go
to the beaches. They are clean, under
control of bathmen, and those frequent
ing them are subject to rules and regula-
tions governing them. At the battery is
a free bath for girls and women at a
short distance from that of the boys, but
at the other places alternate days are
given 10 women.-Cor. Chicago Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
WORK OF THE FAlCONER.
No Little Trouble to Take Care of TIN
Hawks-Duties in Detail.

No Little Trouble to Take Care of the
Hawks-Duties in Detail.
A falconer who has the exclusive care
of half a dozen trained birds, whether
falcons or hawks, or both, finds little
time hanging heavily on his hands. By
the time he has moved out his charges
to the lawn and set their nocturnal abode
in order, he will have got an appetite for
his own breakfast. Then there is the
business of feeding those hawks which
are to fly, and perhaps exercising most
of them to the lure, in the manner so
graphically described by Izaak Walton.
Then the bath or baths must be filed
and the hawks which are to be INDUCED
with that luxury moved to place where
they can jump in and splash about to
their hearts delight.
Then the plan of the days campaign
must be arranged. having regard to wind
and weather, and the chance of where
the quarry is most likely to be found,
and when the days work in the field is
over the falconer's day is not nearly
done. There is the feeding up" of the
hawks that have not been allowed. or
have not had time, to take their pleas
ure' on the quarry. Everything de-
ponds upon melting out to the hungry
creatures just that quantity of food
which will keep them in full health and
strength, but without overgorging them
or making them inactive on the morrow.
If a feather has been broken by some ac-
accident during the day it must be
mended at once; if jess is worn out il
must be replaced. The feet and beaks
of all the hawks should be cleansed,
their hoods seen TO, and the lures made
ready for use on another day. Nor let il
be forgotten that there is such a thing as
losing a hawk. When this disaster hap
pens the country is secured till dark in
search of the truant, and if not found,
the falconer, before break of day, is
again on the lookout with his lure in
hand.
A successful falconer lies on no bed OF
roses. Only constant attention will
make his hawks fond of him. But when
they are so, he stands among them a
sign from him they will jump toward
him: nay, at his first appearance-in the
words of the old sportsman-"they re-
| joyce" The character of each of them
for hawks differ in character as much
as men and women-is as well known tc
him as his own. He knows what can OF
can not be done with each; and thus he
is still able to carry on the most difficult
of all sports without the disappointment
that have frightened away from it les:
patient and preserving tyros.-Englsf
/ Illustrated Magazine.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13

Probably there is to-day no man in the
country who is a better judge of oysters
than Mr.. T. w. Wilson, the sole sur
vivor AMI representative of an ancient
oyster firm in Fulton market, and there
is no one better acquainted with its char
acteristics. He is thoroughly familiar
with the subject. He can tell you what
the oyster feeds upon and how it takes
its food. He can point out to you its
gills, its liver, its stomach, its mouth
and its heart, which beats only once a
minute if the oyster has been sometime
out of water or if impaired or torn by
opening.
He may say to you that if a person
noisily approaches an oyster bed
where the oysters are feeding, every
shell will be instantly closed, because
oysters can hear as quickly as a cat; that
the oyster adheres to the shell at
four different points, two on each
section; that a single oyster may
have 60,000.000 eggs, and that the
actual bulk or volume of one of them
would only be about one two hundred
and fifty millionth of a cubic inch. He
may explain to you the cause of the
green color of oysters, and convince you
that they are just as wholesome and well
| favored as the whtest oyster you ever
ate. Possibly he may say to you that an
oyster is never fat" although it may be
plump. This plumpness is owing to a
deposit of matter which it has assimi-
lated and laid away under its mantle, ="
and it is this delicate, easily digested
wholesome and nutritious. York
Market Journal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
UNTO PARADISE.

AS one oereft, who, gazing on face
Rose-lipped, rose Checked, with violets
for eyes
Wistfully traces in most fond surrnise
Each sweet resemblance to a vanished
grace;
Or, seeing one who runs a childish race,
Led by young birds or gilded butterflies,
Chokes down a swelling sob or vainly
tries
To keep his tears in their accustomed
place;
So does the heart-that, lost in ways of
sin,
Follows unconsciously some spiritual
guide
Whose unseen footsteps lead to heaven
and God
Soften and melt If it has strength to win
That vale in Paradise whose farther
side
The ghosts of high ambitions long have
trod
-. &C. H. L."
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
SHRlNES.

About holy shrine or sacred place
Where many hearts have bowed ia earn
est prayer,
The loveliest spirits congreG gate from space
And bring their sweet uplifting influence
there
If in your chamber you pray oft and well,
Soon will those angel messengers arrive
And make their horne with you; and
where they dwell
All worthy toll and purposes shall
thrive.
l know humble, plainly furnished
room,
So thronged with presences serene and
bright,
The heaviest heart therein forgets its
gloom,
As in some gorgeous temple filed with
light.
These heavenly spirits, glorious and di-
vine,
Live only in the atmosphere of prayer.
Make yourself a sacred, fervent shrine,
And you will find them swiftly tlocking
there.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox in New York Mer-
CurV
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
A Few Facts Concerning Coral.

The value of coral depends on its color
and size. The white or rose-tinted vari-
ETY. stands highest in popular esteem,
perhaps chiefly because it is the rarest.
1t is mostly found in the straits of Mes
sina and on some parts of the African
and Sandman coasts. The bright red
coral, in which the poIyps are still living
when it is fished up stands next in
value. Dead coral has duller tint, and
is consequently sold at a lower price.
Two entirely different substances bear
the name of black coral One of them
is not, properly speaking, coral at all,
and it is commercially worthless, as it
breaks into flakes instead of yielding to
the knife, though it is often sold as a
costly curiosity to foreigners. The other
is the common red coral which has I'M
dergone a sea change, probably through
the decomposition of the living beings
that once built and inhabited it. 1t is
not much admired n Europe, but in In
dia it commands high prices, so that
large quantities of it are exported every
year.
These are the four important distinc-
tons of color, though they, of course,
include intermediate tints which rank
according to their clearness and bril-
liancy. The size is still more impor-
! tant matter. The thickness of the stem
of the coral plant-we use the CONNER
cial and entirely unscientific expression
determines its price, and many a
branch of red coral is valued more highly
on account of its thickness than smaller
piece of the choicer rose color The
reason for this is clear. A large,
straight piece Of material affords an op
portunity to the artiticer; a crooked one,
if it is only bulky enough, can at least
be turned into large beads mere points
and fragments can only be used fol
smaller ones, or made into those horns
which are said to be invaluable against
the evil eye, but which do not command
high price in the market, perhaps be
cause it is overstocked. saturday Re
view,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
A MEAL IN MEXICO.
&C. H. L."

Red Beans, Black Loaves and Tropical
Fruit-Pulque in "Pigskin."
Our refreshment was speedily served
upon a well-scoured table, to which the
addition of cloth would have been an
incongruous superfluity, and the menu
was as follows: Stewed frejoles (red
beams, with our choice as to seasoning"
whether we would pour rancid goats
milk over them, or molasses from the
Chinese sugar-cane; small, black loaves
of Mexican bread-that would have
made excellent cannon balls-of course
without butter, which does not grow"
in this country; water-cresses and fresh
olive oil, from which we compounded a
salad fit for an emperor's table; wild
honey and stewed apricots; and bushel
of ripe tamarinds, pomegranates, figs
and mangoes, arranged in their own
green leaves, as the poorest of these peo-
pie have tasteful habit of doing.
The inevitable pulque was at hand in a
pigskin bottle" (which retains the per-
feet shape of the animal, minus head and
tall, and gurgled an approving note,
alarmingly like life, while its contents
were being emptied into our mugs.
These so-called "pigskins" are really the
undressed hides Of sheep with the woolly
side turned in. Nothing else is consid-
cred so good for holding the popular bev-
erage-though we are told that a
skin of small size costs not less
than $3.50, and lasts little more
than a month, as the constant fermen-
tation going on inside soon eats the WOO
off In this volcanic country the trav-
eler must eschew water, or suffer serious
consequences; good claret or Spanish
wines are not always obtainable outside
the larger cities, and one must drink
something besides the bitter Mexican
coffee; therefore we long ago made up
our minds to pulque-the cheap and
healthy drink of the natives-and pulque
it is, every day of our lives at dinner.
l confess, however, that it required
considerable effort to educate ourselves
up to it, and was only accomplished by
resolutely fixing our thoughts upon that
glorious product of the years-the cen
fury plant-from whence it came, and
by repeatedly assuring one another that
the thick, white nasty liquid resembles
home buttermilk-though we knew it to
be an outrageous libel on northern dali
ries. But, even now, Betsy and some
times amuse ourselves in leisure moments
striving to compute the quantity of
sheepswool which we must have abb
sorbed in course of the last two years,
since the contents of each alleged pig
skin contains a good deal of tin ~solu-
ton" so to speak!-Fannie B. Ward in
Boston Transcript.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13

The parent stock from which the
pumpkin is supposed to have originated
is the small egg or orange gourd Of
Texas and Mexico. The Indian is given
the credit of the origination, but / am
strongly inclined to doubt this, believing,
rather that it is attributable to the pre-
ceding race, and that the Indian inherited
it with the rest of the estate. 1t is in
conceivable that the American Indian
has, or ever has had, sufficient foresight
to take and cultivate such a miserably
unpalatable thing as the egg gourd in the
opinion that it would amount to some
thing in the future.-Cor. Chicago Cur
rent.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
why Is the Divorce Mill Grinding?

l am amazed and indignant at the
revelations made in our courts of the
domestic life of people far removed from
the ignorant and baser classes of society
The domestic life of the coarse and i'll
bred can hardly furnish worse examples
of the bad treatment of wives than those
given in court by men who live in fine
houses, and outside of their families are
supposed to he very nice, respectable,
and ornaments of society. Wives all
trembling and in tears tell to the courts
the awful misery and wretchedness, the
foul indignity and violence with which
for years they have been treated by their
husbands. What is the cause of all this
rushing to the divorce courts to break
the chains too heavy to wear Are
American husbands losing that famous
polite tenderness and consideration for
women that has characterized themi
Are the mean pastimes and brutal appe-
titles taking possession of the better
classes? Else why is it that the divorce
mill is kept on grinding away in all the
states but South Carolina?-Dr. NJ. w.
Willis in Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
FOUNDING THE AsToR LIBRARY.
An Institution That Has Cost the Fam
lily More Than $1,000, 900.

lily More Than s1,Ooo,0O0.
John Jacob Astor, whose remarkable
career has shaped the destiny of Lafay-
cite place, died in 1s4S His will con-
tanned a codicil in these words: "Desir-
ing to render public benefit 10 the city
of New York, and to contribute to the
advancement of useful knowledge and
the general good of society, l do by this
codicil appoint $400, 600 out of my resid-
uary estate to the establishment of pub
lie library in the city of New York. The
instrument then gave specific directions
as to how the money should be applied,
and appointed by name eleven trustees,
including, in addition to the gentlemen
before named, the mayor of the city, the
son of the donor, William B. Astor and
the grandson, Charles Aston Bristed.
Washington Irving was the first presi-
dent of the trustees, and Mr.. Cogswell
superintendent of the new institution.
The edifice, So feet front by 100 deep, was
built of brown stone, in the Byzantine
style of architecture, and was compl eted
in May, 1858.
In 1850 the trustees were presented with
the adjoining lot, eighty feet front, by
Mr.. William B, Aston, who proceeded to
erect second edifice at his own cost,
similar in most respects to the existing
structure built by his father. This was
completed and opened in 1859. The mu-
niticent gift of $4,000 for the purchase
of books soon followed and by will, in
1875, bequest of $780, bore testi-
mony to the interest with which the son
of the original founder regarded the in
stitution. He gave in all about $3.50, 600.
In 1879 his son, John Jacob Aston, grand
son of the first John Jacob Aston, con-
tributed to the enduring monument by
presenting three lots, in all seventy-five
feet front, to the trustees and building
thereon the third section of the great
library in uniformity with its two prede-
cessors. The outlay of the grandson, ex-
elusive of the land, was some $3.50, 600.
Thus this great benificence bringing
within reach of the American people a
rare and diversified collection of stand
ard works, literary and scientific treas
ures, a blessing to the present and all
future generations, has cost the Aston
family considerably more than ST.
000,0
The alcoves are fruitful in historic as
sociations. Here Washington Irving
was often to be found, and for years
Horace Greeley's inkstand, pen and
paper decorated the table reserved for
his use. Almost every notable writer in
the country has in one way or another
left his footprints here. One alcove has
its odd story of being haunted; and the
neighboring Sands mansion has also its
ghost, which in former times had a curl
GUS way of frequenting the library, as il
seeking congenial companionship, on
winter evenings whenever the eminent
DIR. Cogswell CHANGED to be alone.-New
York Commercial Advertiser.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13

The setting aside Of the will of the late
A. d. Ditmars, of Lancaster, who left
$50, 900 ITO ascertain what children were
created to do" leaves it for some one
else to try to develop his curious idea.
One of the features Of the institution
which he hoped 10 found was a room
containing musical instruments, tools
used in the various trades, and other ap-
pliances. When a child was brought to
be entered into the institution it was to
be taken into this room and its actions
observed. If the little ones inclination
led it TO the musical instruments, it was
TO be educated as a musician, If its de-
sires tended toward the plane and the
saw, a carpenters trade would be taught
it, and so on through the list of occupa-
tions.-The Argonaut
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
The Delicate Sense of Smell.

The spectroscope-capable of indi-
eating the millionth part of milligram
of sodium-has been regarded as the
most delicate Of all means of analysis.
Its keenness proves to be far surpassed,
however, by that of the sense of smell,
late European Investigations having
shown that the nerves of the nose are
sensibly affected by one 460, 900, OOOth
part of a milligram of mercaptan-a
milligram being only .O154 of a grain.
And if such be the delicacy of human
smell, what must be the minuteness of
the smallest particle which may produce
an impression on the nose of dog
Arkansaw Traveller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-13
The Summit of Our Continent.

Professor Iglesias, of San Luiz Potosi,
maintains that the barometrical meas
urements of the Mexican mountains have
been formulated without due allowance
for the influence of the coast climate,
and that Mount Orizaba not Popocata-
petl, is the summit of the North Amer
lean continent. 1t is certainly the finest
mountain of the Mexican Cordilleras.
Its rival humps its broad back above the
naked hills of the central plateau, while
Orizaba lifts its symmetrical cone high
above the pine SUBMITS of the coast
range, as the only snow-peak which the
mariners of the gulf can view in its full
grandeur The height exceeds that of
Mont Blanc by at least 1900 feet-Dr.
Felix l.. Oswald