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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
FORTS AT SPITHEAD.

ously insecure. While defenses constructed
during the past twenty-five years for a time
gave protection, "the present enormously
increased range and penetration of modern
guns, and great strength of ironclads render
partial and, in some cases, very extensive re-
construction essential and necessitate an
armament equal to modern requirements"
If the English have discovered themselves
to be unprotected in their comparatively few
harbors, what should be the condition of the
American people, with their vast line of sea-
coast and numerous inletsi New York is as
much absorbed in building and as oblivious
to future danger as if there were no foreign
nations to pour in shells upon the city in
case of difficulty. Forts Hamilton and VIII
liam, constructed for protection when ships
and gunnery were to those of the pre- mt day
as flint lock muskets to repeating rife. are
about all there is to stand between New York
and harm from some petty South American
state. Some experiments have been made
with torpedoes but these, as far back as dur
ing the civil war when Farragut entered the
harbor of Mobile, were found inadequate.
1t is characteristic of the American to pre-
pare for war after the war has come.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

was a member of the Forty-seventh and
Forty-eighth congresses, after which he was
elected to succeed Henry D. Anthony de
ceased, in tho United States senate, taking
his seat Jan. 20, 1885. That term is to expire
March 8, 1889, and he is now elected for the
full term.
In religion he is Quaker, and, like many
other members of that body, is rallied occa-
sionally in his support of the war for the
Union and his votes for army appropriation
bills. On one occasion, when a brother con-
gresham pressed him on that point, he illus
trated his position with this anecdote: "In
the old colonial days the Quakers had a ma
jority in the Pennsylvania legislature, and
were urged to provide defense against the
Indians. They replied that they could not
vote money for warlike purposes, but they
made very liberal appropriation for the
purchase of small grains. And the powder
used in those days." added the senator, with
the grave smile Of his people, CONSISTED of
very small grains; so the quartermaster gen.
eral knew how to apply the appropriation. VI
Mr.. Chace, however, is willing to vote for
large grains for coast defenses.
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c. c. MURRAY. c. p. TAFT. ED. FLYNN.

G. c. MURRAY. c. p. TAFT. ED. FLYNN.
E. MARFIELD. F. E. TUNISoN. NJ. a. NJ RAE.
long been matter of criticism in other cities
that Cincinnati had no press club This is
indeed her first 1t appears that ever since
the place got big enough to have two journals
there has been u bitter personal enmity be-
tween some two editors of prominence, the
last, the longest and the bitterest being that
between Murat Halstead, of The Commercial,
and John R Mclean, Of The Enquirer. This
enmity was hereditary in a newspaper sense,
as the quarrel between Halstead and a former
Enquirer editor went SO far that duel was
almost arranged for, and it was wildly sug-
gested that the city fathers should sprinkle
sawdust on the pavement at the corner Of
Fourth and Race streets, to soak up the an
ticipated gore. Other quarrels of almost
equal bitterness ragged between various men,
bers of the press; but since Cincinnati ceased
to be "Porkopolis" and became the Paris of
America her editors have become as mutu-
ally courteous as members of the United
States senate.
The dignitaries of the Press club are: Presi-
dent, Charles B. Taft, proprietor Of The
Times-Star; vice presidents, F. E. Tuniom,
city editor Of The Telegram; Elliott Mar
field, city editor of The Enquirer, and Milton
A. McRae, business manager of The Evening
POST secretary, Edward Flynn, city editor
of The Commercial Gazette, and treasurer,
G. c. Murray, editor of The Price Current.
The building in which the club welcomes
visitors for this summer is one Of tho new
centennial buildings, which will make it re-
markably convenient; but when the celebra-
ton season is past, the club expects to have
rooms In the central section of the city. The
club starts with seventy-fiva members
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
A Beetle in Harness.

Not long since many newspaper para
graphs were current about pretty beetle
which the southern ladies were in the
habit of wearing on the corsage, where
it crawled at will, held by tiny gold
chain. This beetle is the maqueche. 1t
is perfectly inoffensive, has no odor and
does not deface or stain the most delicate
fiber. The adjusting of the golden har-
ness is nice operation, the metal being
soldered on it. The harness consists of
girdle about the insects waist-between
the thorax and the abdomen-to which
above and below is joined slender band
passing over the posterior portion of the
body, longitudinally, while small chain
is attached to this harness by little
staple, which chain terminates in hook
or pin to fasten in the bodice.
By many Mexicans the insect Is re-
garded as an amulet or mascot, and is
usually highly priced by foreigners when
obtainable. Parties who have owned in
sects of this kind have often attempted to
maintain them on sugar and water, but
the beetles always persisted in a short
time. But if fed on decayed wood, which
is their natural food, they may be kept
alive and thriving for more than a year.
| The wing covers or shell of the beetle
is exceedingly hard. Its color is a light
chocolate shade, and when full grown il
is about an inch and half long. 1t has
been stated that this beetle can cut
through soft metal, and this fact is one
of the most interesting about it, When
placed in a glass jar covered by thir
pewter lid it has been known after few
hours of chipping and cutting to make 6
hole sufficiently large to allow it to pas!
through. Specimens of this insect ant
the cut metal were shown at a recen
meeting of the A1icroscopical society,"
New York Evening Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
Haunta Of the White Goats.

White goats have been known to hunt
ers ever since Lewis and Clarke crossed
the continent, but they. have always
ranked as the very rarest and most diff
cult to get Of all American game. This
reputation they owe to the nature OF their
haunts, rather than to their own wariness,
for they have been so little disturbed that
they are less shy than either deer or
sheep. They are found here and there
on the highest, most inaccessible noun
tain peaks down even to Arizona and
New Mexico; but being fitted for cold
climates, they are extremely scarce every
where south of Montana and northern
Idaho, and the great majority even OF
the most experienced hunters have hardly
so much as heard of their existence. In
Washington territory, northern Idaho
and northwestern Montana they are not
uncommon. and are plentiful in parts of
the mountain ranges of British America
and Alaska. Their preference for the
highest peaks is due mainly to their dis
like of warmth. and in the north-even
south of the Canadian line-they are
| found much lower down the mountains
than is the case farther south.
lney are very Conspicuous dhllhdhS,
with their snow white coats and polished
black horns, but their pursuit necessitates
so much toll and hardship that not one in
ten of the professional hunters has ever
killed one; and know of but one or two
eastern sportsmen who can boast goat s
head as a trophy. But this will soon
cease to be the case, for the Canadian
Pacific railway has opened the haunts of
where the goats are most plentiful, and
any moderately adventurous and hardy
riheman can be sure of getting one by
taking little time, and that, too,
whether he is a skilled hunter or not
since at present the game is not difficult
to approach. The white goat will be
common long after the elk has vanished,
and it has already outlasted the buffalo.
Theodore Roosevelt in The Century.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
Where Eels Are Caught.

Very early in the spring men go out
with spears in the swampy meadows that
border the little creeks and tread about
with bare feet until they come upon a
place where the mud is soft. In such a
spot there is likely to be spring of fresh
water, and the spears thrust down through
the ooze bring up at every stroke between
their prongs writhing eels. 1t is nothing
unusual to get three or four bucketfuls
out of one hole. Most of the cells mar
keted, however-and vast quantities of
them are brought here-are taken by the
familiar process known as ''bobbing. "
In other words, they are fished for at
night with punches of worms done up in
loops at the end of a string. Many are
caught in traps known as ''eel pots, u
from which the poor victim is unable tc
make his escape, having once strayed in
after the food set as bait Eel skins
are worth So hundred for fails They
are salso used as blueish bait, and by
rheumatic patients to tie around the limt
affected. Boston Cor. New Orleans Plea
yune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
On. Holmes, Favortto poeurs.

"It my own opinion, The Chambered
Nautilus is my most finished piece Of work,
and think it is my favorite. But there are
also The Voiceless,' My Aviary,' written at,
my window there, The Battle of Bunker
Hill and Dorothy O. written to the por-
trait of my great-grandmother, which you
see on the wall there. All these have a
liking for, and when l speak of the poems
like best there are two others that ought to
be included-'rhe Silent Melody and The
Last Leaf think these are among my
best. What is the history of The Chambered
Nautilus'l It has none-it wrote itself. So,
too, did The One Hoss Shay That was one
of those random conceptions that gallop
through the brain and that you catch by the
Bride l caught it and refined it. All my
poems are written while am in a sort of
spasmodic mental condition that almost
takes me out of my own self, and write
only when under such influence. 1t is for
this reason, l think, that can never remem-
Der a poem a short time after it is written
any more than the subject of double con
seriousness can recall the idea of his other
state.n-Dr. o. W. Holmes in Book Buyer.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
of the county made by Staten Island

VI tuo couuJy ulisue ny ctipeb Asituu
Is Richmond; but, as If this were
not English enough, there are dark
forebodings that Mr.. Wiman is going
to rechristen it the Isle of Wight. It
is suite ent unto the day to say that the
United States engineers have approved every
detail of the bridge; that three of the five
piers are completed, and the others are to be
done early in August; that the opposition
secured a New Jersey injunction on the
ground that the bridge would interfere with
navigation, but the Federal court decided
against it, and that their next move was by a
bill introduced into congress to compel the
road to change the general plan Of the
bridge, which bill is not yet acted upon. AS
to the future Mr.. Wiman says:
1--WE are now in a position to say that when
the bridge is completed we can close our con-
nections so rapidly that within thirty days
cars can be run from all points over the Bal
timore and Ohio to the Battery over the
Staten Island Rapid Transit road.
"Since the erection of the American docks
on Staten Island 81 900 day has been saved
to the cotton trade Of New York. Formerly
the price was twenty-five to thirty cents a
bale. Now it is ten cents q bale. What will
be the consequence when, by the trunk line
connections now to be afforded, the whole
product of the south and west can reach this
shores
II venture to utter the prediction that
within ten years the Importance of Staten
Island to the harbor of New York will be
second only to Manhattan Island The con-
struction Of the projected bridge over the
Arthur kill will reduce the excessive ter
minal charges of the port of New York by q
very large total. Staten Island has hitherto
been inaccessible from the mainland by rail,
and the change will bring revolution"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

therefore committed to Johannes Gelert, a
Danish artist of Chicago, who has presented
a model which is exactly suitable. The fig
ure is to be nine feet high, Of copper bronze,
heroic female form holding aloft an open
book of laws, and the figure is to typify
law. With the minor accessories the statue
will plainly proclaim that law rules In the
commonwealth. The figure stands in the
center of lofty granite forum, SO the crown
will be twenty-five feet high, and hence very
conspicuous. 1t twill be located on knoll in
Union park, and will therefore be quite con-
spicuous- The total cost will be about s10,-
0O0
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

such ability that be was appointed state land
agent, and held that Office from 1876 to 1879,
but during one session of the legislature in
that time he was assistant clerk in the house
of representatives. In February, 1880, he
was appointed clerk in the state treasurer's
Office, and mastered the details so thoroughly
that in 1855 he was elevated to the Office of
state treasurer
Mr.. Burleigh is a man Of fine presence, six
feet in height, well proportional and full of
vitality. His manner is winning, and he
will make magnetic canvass, as his ac-
quaintance throughout the state is very large
He has a family and a pleasant home in
Augusta, where politics never enters to in
terfere with his social duties and pleasures.
He is q teetotaler and ardent temperance
man.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
Hired Chairs In HYDE Park.

There are thousands of chairs in Hyde
park, London, which can be hired for a
penny each, and their history is an interest
ing one. 1t dates back to shortly after the
battle of Waterloo, when an English general,
who had done good service, found himself re-
duced to extreme poverty. The government
of that day acknowledged his past services by
granting him and his heirs forever the right
of letting on hire chairs in Hyde park. The
general gathered his resources and started
with 100 chairs There are now over 81 GOO
chairs, the income from them amounting to
over $4,000 year.-London Letter.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
STATEN ISLAND.


even the famed Brooklyn bridge. The truth
of this will appear when one glances at the
map of Staten and Long Islands and the adj
jacent Jersey shore, for the big draw bridge
over the Kill Won Kull arthur kill will
enable the road to utilize ten miles of hitherto
unoccupied shore line and establish very
direct passenger route from the west, across
Staten Island and the bay to the eastern end
of Long Island. There is now but one great
depot and military terminus in New York
city. This bridge will enable the Baltimore
and Ohio company to practically make its
city terminus at the Battery, and avoid the
atty entirely in its foreign trade and traffic.
Today the available water front of New
York is crowded with shipping and thickly
hordered In places with tracks In a few
months the crush will be relieved, and it is
quite possible that Staten Island may in ten
or twenty years become a rival to Manhat-
tan. A glance at the map will show why.
A railroad from the west, avoiding Newark
and Jersey City, and taking strip where it
has all the room it wants, terminates near
Elizabethport, n. j.. the great bridge carries
it over the Kill Won Kull to Staten Island,
across the north central part of that island
to the Narrows; gives it a good landing,
whence passengers may quickly be trans
ferred to Long Island, and thence by rail to
the eastern extremity of that island, where
they may take the steamer for Europe. Other
lines of ferriage terminate at the Battery
and at the Brooklyn wharves. The great
possibilities of the main line are self evident
The bridge, now rapidly nearing compile
ton, is the biggest of its kind in the world
Indeed, there is no other bridge with draw
500 feet long. This is imposed in the middle
upon a stone pier in the very center of the
channel, and thus there is clear waterway
of over 200 feet on each side of the center
pier; and over this great highway the B. and
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
THE BIG DRAW.

o. will soon re pouring its immense traffic,
while in no way interfering with the naviga-
ton Of the kill The bridge has four spans,
resting on five massive piers. Only one of
these piers, that supporting the draw, stands
in the channel, which is here 800 feet wide.
On the edge of either bank stands another
pier, supporting the ends Of the draw when
closed for traffic.
On each side of the draw span is q fixed
span $50 feet in length, making the connect
ing links between the draw span and the up
proaches, This makes the entire length of
the structure 800 feet, with one mile and a
half of approach at the Staten Island end
and half mile on the New Jersey shore.
The foundations all rest upon bed rock.
Nothing has been spared, either in time,
money or thought, to make the whole struc-
ture of first class material, finished work
manship and colossal strength The stone in
the piers came from Sandy Hill quarry,
about 100 miles north of Saratoga and is a
dolomite limestone. The piers are tastefully
finished in granite The foundation for the
central pier was laid by the pneumatic pro-
cess, and it was no small undertaking to cof-
fer dam sure resting place for the massive
superstructure containing 1900 cubic yards
Of solid masonry, nearly 5000 tons in weight
and reaching down thirty feet below the
water 1t was done, too, in a stream where
the tide ebbed and flowed with a current of
three to four miles an hour, and was carried
on unremittingly during all the bitter biz
card weather Of February and March.
Erastus Wiman has the credit of devising
this great scheme and securing the completion
of the work SO far done; and, as will readily
be seen, the rivalry of other roads and the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

uanSference OF MIR.
Charles Fl. Jones
from The Jackson
vile Fla.) Times
Union to The Mis-
souri, Republican
(St. Louis), of
which paper he
was recently made
editor In C b i o I.
Smut ly
with the accession
of Mr.. Jones to the
editorial force of
the paper q new
com pany was
formed, and the
familiar name of
Republican was ex-
changed for that of
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
How to Drill Glass.

In drilling glass, stick piece of stiff
clay or putty on the part where you wish
to make the hole. Make hole in the
putty the size you want the hole, reach
ing to the glass. Of course. Into this
hole pour little molten lead. when. I'M
less it is very thick glass. the piece will
Immediately drop out.-Tradesman.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
ENGLISH COAST DEFeNces.
Tho Science of Defense Not Up with
Modern Cunnery.


Modern Gunnery.
There seems to be as much interest in the
coast defenses of England as there is apath ;
with regard to those of America. The secre-
tary Of state for war in England has recently
appointed committee to examine the Brit
ish coast defenses, and the report of this
committee has again called the public atten-
ton TO the subject The construction of
Notifications on the seaboard and rivers does
not keep pace with the Improvements in iron
clad ships of war and gunnery. With guns
carrying 1000 yards, or more than four
miles, and then landing an immense weight
of several thousand pounds on the walls of a
fort. it would not stand SO good a chance as
if pelted with ton weight meteorites. Be-
sides, with a stationary fort, even if inpreg-
nable, and movable ship, also impregnable,
it stands to reason that the ship can pass the
fort and pour destruction upon the property
which the fort is intended to protect. The
English committee have reported their con
viction that deficiencies exist in the de
lenses of two of their important rivers, the
Thames and the Midway. They are such as
to render the positions they protect danger
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
CHARLES Il. JONES.

Republic Mr. Jones IS pleasant faced,
middle aged gentleman, who, as shown by
the accompanying portrait, wears full
beard That he is O stirring newspaper man
was shown by the enterprise displayed on
the part of The Republic during the ma
tionel Democratic convention.
Charles W. Knapp, president Of the COM
pany publishing The Republic, was born in
St. Louis. He wos educated and graduated
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

with this paper in various capacities, at home
and abroad, for more than twenty years.
Mr.. Knapp made an enviable reputation as a
Washington correspondent during the three
years of Cleveland's administration, and was
recalled only to be advanced to a higher po-
sition on the paper. He was delegate to
the recent convention, and was chairman Of
the press committed
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

Nov. 81, 1913, and
received his ed
ucation in the COM
mon schools there
and at Houlton. He
remained on III o
farm and in the I'D
jacent village till
1870, when he Sc
cured q clerkship
in the state land
office at Bangor.
There he displa yed
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

ton; and OF an
early age went into
cotton manufactur-
ing, in which he is
still engaged AS
an original anti
slavery man he
acted from the first
with the Repub-
hcan party; but he
took no prominent
part in politics till
1916, when he was
elected to the state
senate. He was TO
elected In 1872. Ha
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
The Ohio Train Robbery.

Robbing railroad trains does not seem such
a very improbable crime in the prairies and
in the mountain defiles of the far west, but
the recent robbery and murder In the ex-
treme southwestern corner Of Ohio, in q mar
row valley gridironed by railroads and thick
set with villages, has naturally startled the
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

country. We present pictures of the brave
Joe Ketcham, the baggagemaster who got
his mortal wound in combat with the rob
bers, and of Express Messenger Zimmerman,
who took part in the defense, but was not
badly injured. The engineer grappled with
one of the robbers and threw him from the
train
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

at the St Louis
university in 1865,
receiving the de-
gree of A. B. Two
years later the Uni
ver'sity of Ken
tn C ky conferred
upon him tho de-
gree of Ii. B.,
and the same year
he received the de-
gree of y. NJ. at the
st. Louis univer-
sity. He is well
X n 0 W n q m on 2
newspaper men OF
the country, having
b Q en- connected
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29
ClNClNNATpS PRESS CLUB.

1t Has just Been Organized After Many
Years Discussions.
Cincinnati has press club at last, and the
club has lately enjoyed its dedicatory or
opening evening in handsome rooms In the
Washington Park building, where the sum
mer headquarters Of the club will be. 1t has
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

An East Wareham fisherman recently
caught at the Agawam river weir, between
sunrise and sunset, with dip net, $4,000 her.
ring, 22O barrels, worth a a barrel in tho
Boston market as bait for deep sea fishing.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

Seven varieties of fishes examined by nat
uralists of the Challenger expedition have
been found to be totally blind in the deep
sea, but can see when inhabiting shallow
water
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-06-29

grant permission for tho great bridge end
for the requirements as to securing free
navigation, the big fight was naturally made
there, and there are still some legislative OBJ
''run it with politics." and many weighty
charges are made, among others that Mr..
Wiman is really set on making Staten Island
"quite English" that this move is in fact
only the first In a great scheme to found a
vast English colony; and for this cause it is
the arthur Kill" bridge, after Prince Ar
thur, while the new terminus is to be Vic.
toria Station and New Brighton is
railroaded with St George. The name