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The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To THE EDlroR-Plcase inform your readers
that l have n positive remedy for the above
named disease. Iy Its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. l
FREE 10 any of your readers who have consump-
ton if they will send me their express and
post office address. Respectfully. T.. A. SLO-
CUM, NJ. c.. Isl Pearl ST., New York.
Der. o.. I'm
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

Newspapers with a shibboleth, a cast iron
mission, are like sailing ships which would
cross the ocean without tacking.-"Gath."
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07

BLAIR a IitIrP,
20. Dickinson. Oak.
Range on Maggie and White Tail creeks. own
crs OF above brand. Also OWN all cattle branded
with compass and square. Horses branded M
above on any part o' animal. sept. LILY
The Dickinson press., 1888-07-07
It is lust his stupidity.

And when you say that it is Jay Gould's
luck, or it is Vanderbilt's luck, or it is the
luck of this, that and the other, you at
tribute to some unseen potentiality results
which might much better be attributed to
the natural forcings of perfectly well UNDER
derstood, but rarely possessed, elements in
human nature.-Joe Howard in Boston
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
Tho Waste of Fertility.

The city that lives at the expense Of
the country owes the land n debt. Pay
ment of a just debt both honor and hon
esty exact. This debt Is duly set forth
on the annual balance sheet of nature.
If payment is refused the world goes
bankrupt. Liebig, chemist, philosopher,
philanthropist, adduces the past as a
warning to the present. He declares
that ''the cloacae of Rome absorbed the
well being of the Roman farmers" After
the wide Campagna had been wasted
by the sewer of the great city, all of
Italy became its victim. After Italy
she poured Sicily into it, then Sar-
dina, then Africa. Only Egypt, annu-
ally renewed by the slime of the Nile,
was able measurably to withstand the
drain. The sewer of Rome swallowed
the fertility of the ancient world. In the
clark ages" the earth as the race of
man, lay as in fallow. So only could
there be recuperation from the physical
as from the moral exhaustion Of her
pernicious rule.
Against Chicago the grim balance al
ready shows in the millions. On the
lowest basis on which computation
can be made Chicago, initiating pagan
Rome in this, wastes annually not less
than two millions in present money
value. Applied iudiciously to the soil
the gain in added harvests would be two
fold that. The methods of saving and
utilizing this vast wealth. with its won
drous possibilities, are well known. The
expense of applying them is but nominal
in comparison with the gain. 1t needs
only that this product of the city be
placed on the market. Its value shown
by the results of its application would
compel purchasers. If there is profit in
it transported in the bamboo baskets of
China, what gains do we not lose who
can restore this matter to its place at one
hundredth the cost of that in China2
Instead, with our sewerage system we
poison our people. Every zymotio dis
ease that decimates our children is trace
able to its fetid exhalations. And those
whom we intrust with the care of the
public health can devise nothing better
to protect that than by a garbage Gre
matory" to pour this gold in the ore, too
bulky for the sewer, through flame into
the funeral smoke that hangs over the
crematory like a canopy of mourning
shrouding a starving soil.-Chicago
Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31

Blu let us go a step further. 1mrne-
diately after the Noachian deluge the mar
riages of first cousins formed the remotest
degree of kindred available for such in
tercourse, eve if the respective distances
(see Genesis, CHI. 10y and insuperable diff
ficulties of communication and locomo-
ton between the members of the only re-
naming family, scattered throughout the
recently submerged world, did not neces-
sarily involve a resort to the natural law
of the first family, and were but one re-
move from the primitive law of nature.
1t was not until the lapse of many gem
e~rations after the traditional history of
the flood that Moses issued his Levitical
DEGREES to restrain the RIGHTEOUSNESS that
was creating confusion in that social or
ganization which had supplanted print
tive simplicity. Such prohibitions are not
confined to cases of consanguinity,
though the prohibited intercourse un-
doubtedly includes ''any that are near of
kim" which may well embrace first
cousins. The catalogue extends to de-
grees of affinity.
The vulgar error that both mental and
physical deterioration of progeny is the
result of consanguineous alliances, though
long since exploded by the scientific por-
ton of the medical profession, arose from
arguing from a foregone conclusion to
the premises, instead of from the prem
Uses to their legitimate conclusion. If it
were otherwise, the ace must have de-
Perforated from the very beginning;
whereas, on the contrary, it is well
known that by the law of nature the
purity of a stock is maintained by breed
ing in and in, although to obtain certain
foreign characteristics it is sometimes de-
sirable to cross it with another, No
doubt any specific acquired disease in a
family would be intensified by the inter-
marriage of its members, but there isno
record of any physical or mental infirmi-
ty, in the early ages of mankind, result
ing from consanguineous alliances. The
Levitical prohibitions were directed
against a prevalent social and moral evil,
sapping the purity of the domestic hearth,
rather than a physiological one, affecting
the sanitary condition of the world
Hugh Weightman in New York Sun.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
Something About Fairy Rings"

The fairy rings of England, 70 ia
nous in folk lore, began at a bit of ma
nure dropped by a cow or by birds. A
mushroom growth it was that ate up the
nitrogen of the soil. No one noticed
their beginning, but after awhile would
be seen a circle of grass, and within it a
barren spot. The grass of the edge, or
ring, was deeper green and more luxuri-
ant, but inside whatever grew was
stunted. Mushrooms of different sorts
abounded and crowded up to the edge of
the grass. These are terrible eaters of
nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, potash.
AS they exhaust the soil their mycelium,
or seed, extends outward, and, thus
springing up, exhausts again. But the
decay of the mycelium, which is SO rich
in plant food, first fattens and feeds a
ring Of grass before %displacing the same.
A rich ring of dark. stout grass is formed
by the deposition of carbon and phos-
pilates, and her this is crowded back
and out by the craft of the toadstools.
All this the folk did not use to know,
but instead they saw it to be the work OF
fairies. Mary E. Spencer in Globe-Dem'
Ocrat,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
The Need of Arm Exercise.

Walking on an even surface, h only
variety of physical exercise which most
business and professional men get in
town. is well known to be a poor substi-
tute for arm exertion. The reason is par
tally plain, since walking is almost au-
tomato and involuntary. The walking
mechanism is set in motion as W would
turn an hour glass, and requires little at
t~ention, much less ~volition and separate
discharges Of force from the brain sur
face with each muscular contraction, as
is the case with a great variety Of arm
movements
The arm user is a higher animal than
the leg user. Arm motions are more
nearly associated with mental action than
leg movements. A mans lower limbs
merely carry his higher centers to his
food or work. The latter must be exc
cuted with his arms and hands.
A third way in which arm exercise
benefits the organism is through the
nervous system. Whether this is due to
an increased supply of richer, purer
blood, or whether the continual discharge
Of motor impulses in some way stores up
another variety of force, we do not know.
One thing is certain, the victim Of neu-
rasthena is very seldom an individual
who daily uses his arms for muscular
work; with this, the limit of hurtful
mental work is seldom reached Walter
B. Platt, NJ. D., in Popular Science
Monthly.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
politeness of the Italians.

Their everlastingly praised politeness
and good looks is a lot of sentimental
gush. They are not good looking and
their politeness is all on the surface, con-
sisting of the most profound courtesies
and a stereotyped set of nicely turned
compliments, but genuine politeness they
do not possess. An Italian gallant will
allow a woman TO climb upon o chair for
a book vi of reach without the faintest
idea Of offering his services, but will look
on admiringly and he o~ercharged with
pretty expressions about her grace, or he
will step Lefore hex with unfaihng ele-
gance TO receive attention at q window
where she has Leen awaiting her turn
Florence Coz. Chicago Times.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31

French scenery between Boulogne and
Amiens is not particularly interesting,
excepting when the fields are gay with
flowers. The landscape presents a great
variety of bright c%olors, peoples and corn
flowers appearing to contribute more thar
q full share. The growing wheat is bril-
liantly lighted by them, much to the an
noyance of the farmers, we think. Ac-
cording to the papers, French farmers
could earn nothing at the present prices
of their produce, even if tares were no.
where. Sowing and reaping seems to be
a worse business here than in England,
and far worse than in the eastern and
middle states If America, whence come
SO many complaints. j. II. Cowperth-
waite III New York Star.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
Cheating the CITY Directory,

A few days ago l desired to call upon
a young friend who is reckoned among
the swells of New York. l had forgotten
his address, and turned to the directory.
To my surprise, for he had lived in the
city all his life and was well known
about town, his name did not appear
there. then hunted for the names of
several mutual friends, from whom l ex-
pected to obtain the desired information,
and, to my increased establishment, l
found that their names, too were
omitted. Fortunately l found a copy of
the Society List" the directory that
pretends to contain the names of the elite
of the city, and in that way discovered
the object Of my search.
1t was while talking to my friend later
on that l loosely referred to his having
been dropped from the list of citizens.
why, my lear fellow" was his re-
ply. there's nothing accidental about
that. 1t is the result of design, and l
congratulate myself on having been
clever enough to keep clear of those
deucedly persistent fellows that go
around collecting Names"
''But what in thunder do you want to
keep Your luillt Oub VI bIC
forl" l cried, completely mystifed.
He laughed.
Its getting to be vulgar, old fell, " he
said. 1T is considered more aristocratic
nowadays net to have your name sand
wiched in with a lot of ordinary people.
The gentleman of today is a traveller. He
has many residences, and prefers to have
it thought that he is moving about from
one to another. Anyhow it is an estab-
lished fashion and rapidly growing among
the select"
My friend, who would be a first class
fellow if he had not been wealthy and a
member of a very fast set, mentioned
many other reasons for the desire of the
dude to be unknown to the common
herd. Some of them were more sub
stantial than those already quoted. New
York Cor. Globe-Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31

According to experiments of most
dentists, ladies are by far the bravest and
most considerable patients. While not
able to bear as much physical pain as
mankind generally, they make up in
force of will power and self control, and
thus endure the trying ordeal without
fainting or hysteria. They may suffer a
shrek Of pain to escape them. but they
bravely hold their ground until the tooth
is extracted. A young lady entered a
dentists establishment accompanied by
her mother. She was suffering with a
severe toothache. She was DESTROYS of
attending Il party in the evening, how
ever, and wanted some relief. An
examination of the tooth proved
the impossibility Of saving it, and its ex-
traction was suggested. Very WELL, "
submissively replied the young lady. The
head was thrown back. the pretty lips
were parted, the forceps were inserted.
A shrill scream pierced the air, but in
another instant the young lady was
smiling through her tears, and the dentist
triumphantly held the emaciated tooth
before her. Her toothache was gone and
she could attend the party in the evening.
"A man would have carried that tooth
around with him for a week." said the
dentist, before he would have mustered
up courage enough to have it out, and
he would have suffered the tortures of
the damned before he would submit to
the almost instantaneous operation of
extraction. That's the difference be-
tween the sexes. Chicago Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31

"You had better take that pipe out of
your mouth, it will draw lightning"
said a colored man near AGREE, as Nellie
Brow n, the colored cook, was smoking
her pipe III the door. Instantly, there
was q binding fash and Nellie fell dead.
The lightning struck her OH the top Of
the head, and then descended, tearing
away her left treast al if cut off with a
knife. Ter clothes were burned of.
She was the sister of Jordan Harris, a
noted colored preacher. The colored
people believe the pipe drew the light
ning.-Atlanta Constitution.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
Wateruneions fo. Christmas.

Waterraelons for the Christmas dinner
are not IN :mpossibility. 1t is said that
they viii keep perfectly if put away in q
NOW Of well cured hay, free from damp
ness. Chicago Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
A WORD OF WARNING.

There are many white soaps, each represented 10 be "st as good as the Ivory $"
they ARE NOT, but like all counhfets, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
of the genuine Ask for "Ivoy' Soap and insist upon getting it.
Copyright 1885, by Proctor Gamble.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31

AIss,s. Proctor 6 Camille:
The sample of Ivory Soap received from you is an excellent
Laundry Soap of more than average cleansing power. The soap
is also very well made, no greasy fats being left in it, while the
alkai is thoroughly combined so that it will not iniure the most
delicate fabrics. Very respectfully yours,
H. 7. CORNWALL, I>cfssw Ct Chemistry.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-31
Continued from 9TH page.1

national debt an easy burden compared
with its pressure in 1910, and the process
Pf accumulation is still going on at the
average rate of at least f200,0 900, 900 per
hnnum.
COMMERCIAL MARINE.-The fluctua-
ions in u progress under this head are
Furious and characteristic. In 1910, the
tonnage of the registered vessels of the
United Kingdom was 2,571, 900 tons. In
$40, when our protective navigation
avs were repealed, the tonnage was g.
P96 900, an increase, under the old sys-
EN-, of 525 900 tons in nine years. In
$40 our trade was thrown open to the
hipping of all the world, and u ship
wners and ship-builders were told that
hey would be swept away by the
ompetition. What happened? In 1858,
inc years after the repeal of the Navi-
alton Laws, the tonnage of the regis
cred vessels of the United Kingdom was
1925, 900, an increase of 1,229,000 tons
yer the tonnage of 1919. So that while
uring the nine years or protectlon tnat
receded 1919 the increase was 525 900
pns, the increase during the nine years
unrestricted competition that followed
$40 was 1929, 900 tons; and the expan-
on of our mercantile navy has been go
g on ever since. In 1873 the tonnage
the United Kingdom was 1926 900, and
le greatest part of the entire interna-
onal trade of the world is conducted in
ritish bottoms. To afford some insight
to the present distribution of the carry
g trade, we may state that the total
image of the vessels that discharged
i'd reloaded cargoes in 1878 at the vari-
is ports of the United Kingdom was
100000 tons, of which 30,297 900 were
ritish and l2,603,0 900 were foreign.
lese II, 1903 900 tons of foreign shipping
ere distributed as follows:
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
GibisOnVille o.

We are having lots of rain, very
few of our farmers have taken in
their wheat crops yet.
The Oats crop promises to be a
good one, the acreage in this TIP. is
larger than for years.
William Vancuren our city black
smith has purchased a new buggy.
Mr.. F. w. Dollison, of Logan, is
out on a flying visit this week. We
are always glad to see Wash and
wish that he may come often.
Business at the Grocery of Van
curen and Whitcraft has more
than met expectations since started
up.
The u. b. Sabbath School at this
place are making extensive pre-
paratiOns to celebrate Children's
day in the near future, The Pro-
gramme is a good one and II given
The proper amount of study, can
be rendered to the satisfaction of
the most skepticaa.
There were. several disappointed
Bellies Sunday evening. It rained
very hard late In the evening and
the buggy failed to come. :
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
Miliville.

We are all alive and generally
Democratic. W
The farmers are about through
cutting wheat. They say 1t will
not make an average crop.
Base ball Is the rage among the
young men OF our town. {
The picture gallery here seems
to be we'll patrOnized.
Oliver Woltz living UP in the
country met with misfortune last
week. !. Oliver took 1t into his head
that there was great profit is fat
tening turtles In the swill tub, and
depriving his hogs of their part OF
the swill. So he fattened three OF
four and proceeded to take them to
Lancaster, making great calcula.
tions what he could get for them,
When starting he was singing this
soul stirring hymn, "Happy on the
Way" When he got near MIL
vile hs went to see how they were
coming on, when so! No turtles
were to be seen. He had placed a
cheese box over them and they had
flown. Chagrlnned vt the situa'
tion he went home by another
route.
DUDE,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
PERRY Co1.r.nrY.

The horse buyers were here on
Tuesday in number and took home
with them some fine horse flesh.
A number Of accidents have Oc.
Cured In this neighborhood the
past ten days by carelessness in
using reaping and moving ma.
chimes. Several children have
been horribly mutllated.
A Shawnee special Of July 10,
says: A severe wind and rain
storm did much damage here.
The cast-house at the Fannie fur.
mace was completely demolished
and many shade trees on Main
street blown down. The switch at
Gosline & Barbors mine was wash.
ed away 80 as to prevent shipping
of coal from that mine. Houses In
the lower part of town were food.
ed.
Miss Grace Bright is visiting the
family of her uncle, Judge Bright
at Logan,
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
Laurelvi1le.

At present we are having more
rain than we need, last Saturday
we had q wind storm that blew
down the corn and oats to a great
extent.
Mrs. Cave and Mrs. Fortner,
both old ladies, are confined to
their beds.
Il. A. Steel and c. Dent spent the
fourth in Chillicothe.
j. X. Friend was at Columbus on
business last Thursday.
"Polly" Pennel Is at home. He is
still dry.
Three children one each of J. s.
Steel, A Drum and j. p. BurgOOn,
died the past three weeks with
whooping cough and fiux. p. Drums
child is very bad at this writing
with poor hopes of its recovery.
Mr.. James Albin and wife of
Walnut Creek are visiting their
daughter Mrs w. w. Saylor.
DIR. Dawson was at Columbus on
business one day last week.
A man cut Il bee tree on another
mans land and got onehalf gal.
honey. Another man made q man.
pay fifteen dollars for doing it. A
man says it was too much, but he
paid it.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
The Columbus & Cincinnati Midland
Railroad an n0unces the following
Excursions, to which Round
Trip Tickets will he sold,

National Educational Associa.
tion at San Francisco. Tickets will
be sold from June Is to July IL, In.
elusive, limited to 80 days for go.
ing'passage and 80 days for return
passage from date of sale.
For the Ohio Vally Centennial
and Exposition round trip tickets
will be on sale July 5, and continue
on sale during the continuance of
the Exposition. Tickets will be
good returning 8 days from date of
sale.
Pioneers Centennial Celebration
at Marietta, o., July IA and 10.
Tickets good for return passage un-
til July 2Sd.
Annual Session, Island Park AS
sembly, at Rome City, Ind. Round
trip tickets will be sold July 90 to
Aug. l8, good for return passage
to Aug. 2lst.
Tri.state Fair at Toledo, O.
Round trip tickets will be sold Aug.
26th to 3lst, good for return passage
until Sept. LIST.
Illinois State Fair at Olney, Ill.
Round trip tickets will be sold Sept.
28 to %, good return passage until
Oct. 3D.. VI, 'e
National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic at
Columbus, o., In September.
w. e. REPPERT. q. p. A.
Columbus o.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
south Perry.

Quarterly meeting next Sunday
at Mt. Union.
July s d 9th are noted for the
greatest food that ever occurred
here. Great damage was done to
the gardens in the western end Of
town and u great amount Of fencing
was also washed amay.
Mr.. l.. r.. Hendrickson has closed
his summer term of school and re-
turned home.
Mrs. Ben. DUNN, of Lancaster,
is visiting here at present.
There was an ice cream supper
given at the residence of Mr.. How.
ard which was the boss one of the
season there being about 80 couple
present.
Mrs. Cupp of Columbus was here
Sunday last.
Miss Frank Newton was q visitor
to Circleville on Saturday last.
Mr.. Dan Bets Is here.
Our boys were over ut Kingston
on the 4th and played a game OF
base ball. The game was a good
one and the boys report a good
time in general.
DR.. Redfern was a business visitor
to South Bloomingville on Satur-
day last.
Sunday night was a hard one on
sprucers that were out late, so the
boys say.
Mr.. VIM. Fetherolf met with a
very painful accident on Monday
last by COW hooking him in the
face.
Mr.. Henry Carr shipped his pota
toes to the New York market, sc
he says.
Mr.. Harry Campbell says that
black hart cherry pie is good, bu,
some Of the boys will not believe
1t until they test it.
OLD IRON SIDES.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1888-07-14
Grange Store Roms,
One Fare Excursions via G.
H.. ". ST. Ry.

Round trip excursion tickets will
be sold by the Columbus, Hooking
Valley and Toledo Railway, ON tls
following occasions, To points and
ON dates named below, ut one fare
for the round trip.
For Pioneers Centennial celcbra-
tion at Marietta, o., July l.th,
round trip tickets will be sold July
u, to 10, good returning to July ~,
1883. "
For further information call on
your local ticket agent, or address
II. j. tnlkenbach, q. +. a. Column
bus, q.