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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17

Removals and the scythe of time have
swept the others all away. Those
few left are from 20 to 90 years of age;
two of the number are in their 9lst year.
My vote in 1910 was my second presiden-
tial cast. l am thankful for being able
to vote in my native town since then at
eleven successive presidential elections,
for good and true men, for protection to
home industries, for right and for a con-
tinual higher civilization; and while |
congratulate you and rejoice with the
whole Republican party in the standard
bearers selected by the Chicago conven-
ton, my hope and prayer is that | may
once more, in my 18th year, be able to
cast my vote for, and see triumphantly
elected, the noble men bearing the un-
sullied and historic names of those pre-
sented for our support.
Cordially and sincerely yours,
PROSPER ELITHORP.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17

son and Morton. 1t is a first-class piece
of goods and is going to win.
The new building erected for the fin
ishing of curtain rol 5 Is about complet-
ed. The machinery is being put in. E.
III. Daniels of Bristol was the builder.
The grand rally here last week We'd
nesday evening vas one of the largest
gatherings of Republicans ever held in
this county. Six hundred torches were
in line, and five bands provided the mu-
sic. Three prominent speakers addressed
the large crowd-Hon. VIM. p. Dilling-
ham. Hon. Frank Plumley and Col. L. a.
Woodbury. of Burlington.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17
s~IIICeItIy yUuISi
PROSPER
RUINECLIFF, Aug. 4, 'SS.

PROSPER ELITHoRP, Esq, Bridport, Vt.
Dear Sir Il have the honor to ac-
knowledge the receipt of your favor of
the oath ult. and to thank you for the
congratulations and good wishes con-
veyed therein.
l have read with special interest your
recollections of my father, and | appre-
ciate the tribute you pay to his ''impres-
sive delivery" when you recall so dis
tinctly the sermons and addresses by
him, to which you listened in your boy
hood. | also note your "reminiscences of
the campaign of General Harrison's
grandfather in 1910 and the part therein
taken by the worthy citizens of Vermont,
the survivors of whom are still earnest
supporters of the same principles they
voted for in that campaign.
| beg your acceptance of the enclosed
photograph and remain
Very truly yours,
LEVI p. MORTON.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17
DOMESTIC.

There was a $4,000 fire at Litchfeld,
Conn, Thursday.
Gen. Schofield has been given the COM
mand of the army.
Maxwell, who murdered Preller at st.
Louis. was hanged Friday.
The Michigan Republicans have re-
nominated Governor Luce.
The Jogglns timber raft arrived at
New York on Saturday from New Found
land.
Lawrence r. jerome of New York died
Sunday at his summer residence in Shar-
on. Conn.
The reunion at Gettysburg of Farms
worth's cavalry brigade will be held Sep
TENDER 26.
About 5000 employees of Pittsburg glass
factories who have been idle are once
more at work.
A gigantic trust thas been formed to
control the Minnesota and Wisconsin
lumber interests.
Five women were drowned in the Del
aware the other evening by the upsetting
of "A pleasure boat.
Judge Cummings of Wilmington, Del,
is charged with pilfering about Sl00, 900
from his clients and friends.
Jacksonville, Fla, has been quaran-
tined from the outer world on account of
the presence of yellow fever.
The owen of the Ladies of the Sa-
cred Heart in New York was burned
Monday night; loss 100000.
\ fire at Chattanooga, Tenn, Thurs
day night killed five men and destroyed
property roughly estimated at about a
million dollars.
J. Harmon Reed of Albany, y. Y, and
Miss Milliken of New Orleans were
drowned at Bar Harbor Saturday night
by the capsizing of a canoe.
Two persons were killed and eight IA
tally wounded by an accident on the Erie
railroad Monday. Twelve valuable horses
belonging to Fred Gebhardt and Mrs.
Langtry were killed.
Robert NJ. Oliphant, president of the
Delaware and Hudson Canal company, a
conservative business man, who sup
ported Cleveland four years ago, will
support the Republican ticket this year.
Alarge-sized dynamite bomb was found
on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
tracks on Sixteenth street near the via
duct at Chicago Tuesday morning.
There was enough dynamite in the bomb
to blow up a train.
A Providence Or. L. canister ran
down a bicyclist recently and injured
him, for which he was fined; a civil suit
has also been brought against him. The
Judge decided that a bicycle is a vehicle,
Notwithstanding it is not so enumerated
in Webster's Dictionary.
Zachariah Field, 50, fatally shot his
young wife, 20, at Santa Cruz, CAL, Sun
{ dav, and then blew off the top of his
{ head with a Winchester rifle. 1t is said
that his wife's relatives have been trying
, to induce her to leave him, and that was
/, probably the cause of the tragedy.
3 A Congressman has exposed the origin
: of the so-called Democratic colored con
D.. vention at indianapolis. He charges thai
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-08-17

Curtis of Georgia, A. II. Royce of Swan
ton assistant judges, Jude Fairman of
Fairfax, Enos Asseltyne of Swanton;
probate judge, NJ. w. Bailey of st.
Adams; sheriff, Il. B. Kennedy of st.
Adams; States attorney, Eugene Ayers
of Swanton; high bailifl, j. p. Goddard
of Richford county commissioner, 5. II.
Dow.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09

worth were IL nct to be shared with
husband and ohtldreAt Mrs. Carlyle's
sofa, which she has kept her eye on for
a yoar, and finally got into the house
at very small outlay. a sofa that cost
just nothing TO speak OF. is case in
point.
The tiny touches, when all is said,
are those which give character to the
room and proclaim its occupants lndi-
viduality. 1t used TO be harder than II
now is to hang wreath around grim
decay, when the decay was inside the
door. People would have thought u
woman crazy If twenty-five years ngo
she had pinned japanese fans on her
walls or filled vases with cat-tails and
grasses, or set ginger jars in places OF
honor. But by this time we have
found out that artistic possibilities
Turk in reeds and weeds, in the marsh
and the fen, and that the simplest ar
ticle may be replete with beauty.
And if there be a hidcous patch on
the kalsomiping, or n spot on the wall
paper, what an obliging and altogether
satisfying treasure is the gayly-colored
Oriental fan, itself II picture, which
lends its bright hues and its dainty
shape to the work, not only of conceal
ing n dcformity, but heightoning a
beauty. inteiHQeRcer.
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Evils Of Our Short Wheat Crop



If our wheat crop is as short as tie
spectators would have believe it is a
great misfortune to the country. 1t
is contrary to all experiences of man
kind, as we'll as TO the well-defined
principles of political economy, that
higher prices for any particular pro-
duct are of general benefit. Such
higher prices merely cause the few to
prosper at the expense of the many.
Dear hats may benefit hutters, but
hundreds and thousands wear hats
TO every one that makes them. \
comparatively few farmers in the
wheat-growing regions may reap the
benefit of abnormally high prices on
account of the present wheat-crop
failure. On the other hand, the great
mass of them must suffer, while their
suffering is reflected in the reduced
sale of manufactured products.
There is, however, another phase to
this contention. In times of scarcity
il is too often the speculator or mid
dleman who resps a reward altogeth-
err disproportioned TO his services.
Such is the case at present. 1t is GER
tainly not in accordance with mer-
camille and industrial comfy that
one mau should realize millions Out
of the misfortunes ofthousands. At
ter the Irish famine of 1917 hundreds
Of thousands of bushels of grain in
Dublin, Cork, and Belfast we're cast
into the sea, The grain was held SO
long for higher prices as to become
understandable.
There is also another phase of this
wheat failure which deserves consid-
Grafton. 1t is obvious that hence
forth during the season whest viii
be held back for higher prices-held
above the prices of the worlds mar
kets. 1t is now so held. AT the
same time, our agricultural products
are those which have enabled us to
liquidate all foreign debts and to pur-
chase commodities not procursble at
homo. Thus, from July l, 1879, 10
July l, 1887, the value of our net inn
ports Of merchandise was s. GAO, 2Gl,-
75S; while our exports of farm pro-
ducts TO pay for them for the same
period were $679i,3ll,70l. 1t is
these agricultural products which
haye enabled MS to reduce our debt
from nearly 100000 600 to a little
over 81 ,000000,0OO, besides liquidat-
ing our trade balance.
Anything which tends TO check
this outward flow of products to pay
debts and purchase necessaries mus,
act unfavorably on both our import
and export trades, and consequently
restrict the employments, lower the
wages, and limit the comforts of the
great mass Of the people.
1t is far from nationally beneficial
when both the quality and the quan,
tity of any leading product of the
country is materially reduced, how
ever individually profitable 1t may bC
TO the wealthy few. II is not Tho
holding of products for higher prices
which Is really beneficial TO either
Chicago or the United States. 1t is,
on the contrary, their movement at
the least possible expense and in the
quickest possible time. Yet this it il
which speculation checks and limits
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
CHINESE TORTURES.
How Celestial Suspects Are Compelled t.
Testify or Die.

How Celestial Suspects Are Compelled TO
Testify or Die.
All examinations of parties in China
charged with the higher crimes are by
torture. a confession Of the crime
will not prevent the torture, as it +
applied to cxtort The names of sup
posed accomplices and confessions OF
other probable or possible crimes
These tortures consist OF beating be-
tween the shoulders with the bamboo;
beating the mouth with two thick
pieces of sole leather. Those are fas-
tened together at one end. These
pieces of leather bring blood from the
lips, and even loosen the teeth and
cause such swelling as to prevent the
prisoner from eating or speaking for
days! These fortunes being Ineffective,
the ankle-bones are beaten with sticks
OF hard wood. The prisoner is COM
peeled to kneel upon broken pieces OF
stone or crockery, the fingers and ankle
bones are squeezed between sharp
edges Of pieces Of wood; he is
suspended by the thumbs or
big toes; the bare arms and legs
are encircled with copper snakes filled
with hot water, and an indefinite num-
Der of such horrors are applied. II one
days torture fails to extract a confess
sion,of guilt, or il the person iaints
from exhaustion without confession, hs
may be brought to the tOruRe again as
soon as he has recovered sufficiently.
IL ne is Innocent and prefers death to
dishonor for himself and family he will
be tortured to death. In the great
tusSDsitE Of eagOs tao aGsIalaA prefess
'&Shoaor agd s~pa eesSb b sx&n
+rnsaes 70 30 yerF&t1s uzH sSnAtals
torturan.
Ris not outy tAe suspected party who
Is liable TO torture. Whea the suspect
has escaped his nearest relatives are
arrested, and tortured 10 make than
neveal the suspects whereabouts. I'm
prisonmont, either before or after con-
viction, is continued and indescribable
horror. The cells ore so small us to
cramp the poor prisoner, the floors are
of brick or stone and wet. there is little
light and no ventilation, the veTnin
and filth are beyond portrayal, and the
food is so scanty and bad as to produce
slow starvation and, IL the imprison-
ment is continued long enough, linger-
ing death. Chicago Netcs.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
wages in unprotected than protective

wages in unprotected than protective
industries?
Why the importation Of wooden
aud worsted cloths is Increasing at a
fearful rate, while our own weavers
are thrown out OF employment?
What good is tariff to working
men, when American factories pay
only 81 80 wages OH piece of in-
grain carpet on which the duty
would be $2l?
What is the use of tariff, when
Lynn shoe factories, paying nearly
double day wages, can produce for 80
cents labor, a pair of shoes costing
so cents 10 make In England?
Why wool averaged % cents in
high tariff times and 30 cents in low
tariff times, though blankets were
much higher under the tariff?
Why we sold only $4,000 of wool
en- goods to countries where England
sold over $ll6,000,0O0 in 1885?
Why,with navigation laws and pro-
tective tariffs, only II instead of 80
per cent. Gas of old)of our commerce
is carried by American ships?
Why blankets are taxed II per
cent and thread lace only 30? Why
neccessaries bear heavy duties and
luxuries light?
Why savings bank deposits in
creased ii per cent. year, 1916 60,
under low tariff, and only s per cent
a year, 1860 50, under high tariff!
Why, when the Republican tariff
commission recommended at leSst 20
per cent, reduction, the Conference
bill" raised tie average of duties, so
that they were 4G instead of i3 per
cent. in 1885?
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
Are You Going to Kansas
Missouri, Colorado, Cali
fornia or Any Of The
Western States2

If you should avail yourself of the
advantages that are now offered by
The Kansas City Route, the only di-
rect route from the South to the
West and Northwest. This line runs
its entire trains, with Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cars and free Reclining
Chair Cars, from Memphis to Kan
sas City, saving many hours time
over any other route. If You are 60
ing you will save money by purchas-
ing your ticekts via Memphis and the
Kansas City Route. Send for large
map of this Snort Route mailed free
Address,
e. LOCKWOOD,
Kansas City, Mo.
H. D. ELLIS, Ticket Agent,
81 Madison Street Memphis, Tenn
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
Plague of Rats in China.

A plague of rats is reported in a re-
cent number of the Pckin gazette, which
recalls the German legend of the rats
OF Hamelin. Certain postal routes
have had to be changed In Outer Mon
golia on account of the honey-combing
OF the whole country by myraids OF
rats, who have burrowed and eaten up
the pastuWage so extensively that the
supply of food for oamels and horses is
greatly diminished, and the burrows
are dangerous to all mounted travellers
and couricrs. The prize offered by the
Australian Government for the rid
dance OF the rabbits which infest that
country may afford suggestion to the
authorities in China to offer induce
ments which NJ. Pasteur or some un-
known Wilmington may find advan-
tageous enough to undertake the task
of Kidding the country of these vermin.
China and the Chinese have been
afflicted enough Of late, what with
earthquakes, floods, restricted emigra-
ton, etc.-DemOTpSr MOnthLY. &.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
Some Tariff Nuts.

The following from the Kansas
City Times is a good thing for every
Democrat to arm himself with, ready
to draw it on any sophistical project
ionist whom he may encounter in his
rounds:
Ask your prolectionist friend when
he talks about the blessings of pro.
tective tariff why 100000 men have
been out of work under il?
Why Pennsylvania miners lost l2S
days' work in 1884 and Ill days.
work in 1885?
Why they only got 500 a month and
pay out of that 81 80 for tools, sharp
ening, powder snd oil?
Why some Pennsylvania laborers
work for ~ cents day?
Why he talks about child labor In
England. when slste pickers, 7 TO 10
years old. are working under the rod
in Pennsylvania?
Why Pennsylvania operatives pay
50 a month for company houses when
Ehglish operatives get cottage for
$50 year,
ANN PiV'uO'lOh IiOICCl7 WOihlnS-
men when Italians aud Ilungarisns
come in duty free?
Why cotton operatives In Masschu-
sets work sixty hours aud ia other
New England states sixty-six and
sixty-ninc hours a week, while Eng
lish operatives work onlp ffty-six?
Why tho poorest American spin
ners get 81 OF and the poorer English
spinners 1920 q weeF, though the
American makes two aud three
fourths yards of cloth TO the English
two and one half?
Why wages under the high protCc-
tive tariffs OF Italy and Germany are
about oue.half what they are in free
trade England2
Why the condition of the miner
has for some years been growing
worse ilf Pennsylvania and better
IN Great Britain
Why ia the very occupations which
we so tax ourselves TO protect, the
English workman has, as rule, The
advantage?
so 49, o. ---.. ii..ka. la,,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
EXCHANGE SPARKS.

There are so many orators on the
stumps of Indiana this year that the
farmers have not found it necessary
TO erect scare crows.-Commercitl.
A prominent Baltimore attorney
has failed for $4,000. 1t is presumed
that he praticed oftener before "the
bar" than before the court.-Stan-
dard.
The politicians in the doubtful states
are not interested in the price of
December wheat. They are just now
dealing in votes for November deliv-
ery.-Chicago News.
The prohibitionists of Dover, Della Z,
have nominated man named Treat
as their candidate for mayor. If
there's anything in name he ought
to be popular with the boys,-Padu-
cab News.
The most popular person in the
South to-day, next TO Cleveland, is
Jack Frost, Esq, and if he were run
ming for office he would got the Solid
South and several Western States and
territories.
A North Eastern, Mass couple who
we're married while in the basket of
a big BALBOA just before ascending
landed in swamp. That must have
put an awful wet dampor on the
honeymoon business.-JOurnal.
Mrs. Sehreiner, of Chicago, has
been sentenced to ten years impr1s
onmcnt for pouring coal oil over her
drunken husband and applying a
match. She deserves some relief for
having shown how to burn wet
dog.-Owensboio Inquirer.
The Chinese are not to be allowed
to immigrate even to Siberia. No
body wants John. lie will have 10
cultivate the homo feeling until man
kind softens toward him or discovers
some new continents that he can .oc-
cupy unmolested.-Cour er-J Journal.
If the government is so anxious to
get rid of the surplus in its treasury
It might do neighborly deed by
lending it to the sultan of Turkey
That individual is said TO be "brokeH
as fiat as an American bank whose
officers have eloped to Canada.-Padu.
cab News.
Miss Cora Huntington, pretty girl
living near Lawrenceburg Ind, in q
spirit of fun wrote Ter name on .
goose egg, while packing eggs for hel
father. The egg came into the hands
of young gander in Boston com
mission house. Result: Corres9on
deuce, exchange of photographs, en-
g5gement, marriage and brood o
young goslings Exchange.
Moy Ling, the distinguished celes
tial renovatOr of linen, says that tn,
passage of the Chinese exclusion bill
by congress is sure sign that som,
careless laundrymsu has been rub
bing the buttons off the shirts of tn
most able statesmen in Washington
lie deeply deplores the carelessres
of his countrymen and suggests tina
the Chineses governmental hire 4 tailo
TO repair all congressional garment
free of charge. This he thinks, is tn
only practicable way to keep VI
friendly relations between the tw,
countries.- Chicago Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
woMANLY TOUCHES.
A Merited Tribute to tho Virtues OF th'
Ever Busy Housewife.

A Merlted Tribute to tho Virtues OF the
Ever Busy Housewife.
1t is the woman's touch in the house
which marks the difference between
the mere shelter and the home When
mother and the girls are away for a
few days or weeks, and the housekeep-
ing is left to father, the house takes on
insensibly the look of neglect, which
comes from the absence Of the woman
ly element Utilitarianism steps to
the front Papers and books lie about.
Boots and shoes arc everywhere. The
rooms may DO cleaned periodically by
some strong-armed Bridget, and they
are sure TO be aired and summed, for
men, bless thor hearts, are sensible
enough TO value air and lighi; hut tbe
gs7Ieetil arranSemopt- OF iugniturc, the
disposition OF things 20 thes best i'd
vantage. belongs only 20 women. Tho
average man has II cantcmpt for sush
mans6emeut'
Who bRt edzsdy egse et4e;ls pi piSsg,
SIeS thB litnalap oFdS ths v5HA sa}eh ~
the capoL aud sottns %tso rclSetS taa
bio in the corneT, g1soTe q VIII AIT on
ly look pretty undcS Tho brncleta, on
which stands the pot 81 growing ivy.
but also be out 6i the way Of clumsy
foot or tn jmpet,eus child. Who else
orders tie lights and shades. sons to
throw tbe best of the room into relief,
and tho less beautiful into partial OBJ
scurityp Who else always remembers
to turn the mended side of the vase to-
ward the wall, and to keep the ann
chair (Which needs upholstering, but
can nu4 yet receive iO in tho comforta-
bic back room, whepc the family group
assemblies, rather than in tho statelier
front parlor, which Is set apart
for guostsp What man would take
the trouble 90 make over an old thing,
by dint of glue. and varnish. and gilt,
and scrap pictures, so that out Of nero
rubbish one should evolve household
ornament mud cause for folicitation.
Tho innry mako the household
IuI only he home
And thG. one, what pleasure she
takes IN contriying, in twisting, In
planning, in oconomizing, in croating
something out of nothingl How tri-
umphant She is over the little luxury
which she has been longing for through
many weeks and has finally attained,
---ti~t '"~,,id ha nothing
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
A Mean Mans Arithmetic.

Miss Youngbelle, at a reception,
pointing TO n girlishly-dressed, but
rather antique, party on the opposite
side of the room-How old is Miss
NeverdyP
Mr. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Miss Youngbelle 49, o, nonsense!
she's not as old as that
Mr.. Jokerby-Well, l don't know,
but she's celebrated her eighteenth
birthday three times to my knowledge,
and three times eighteen are fifty-four
---PttSGHTuh Disputed.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09
South Kentucky College
The next Session will begin
TUESDAY, SEPT. 4.

This school has an onviable record for tho
thorough methods of teaching pursued.
Old fossilized ideas OF training and decipline
find no place In its management.
The Cramming process in Education is
studiously avoided, as well as the machine
methods Of many, so called, grade schools.
TO know from memory is good, but to be
able to know by thought is better. Pupils are
encouraged to the exercise OF all their better
powers.
The faculty will remain, as II has been Tor
year past except the place of Prof. Dabney
will DO supplemented by PROF. FLEMING.
1t will be seen, therefore, that the faculty
consists Of the same number Of professors and
teachers ana that AL the advantages usually
offered arc still 10 be obtained as any former
session.
dato
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-10-09

A hevy o. very small boys wero playing
CATCH UP on Mathcr street yesterday. In an
evil moment little lad on tho curhstone,
who wns watching tho sport, picked up the
ball as It rolled toward him and threw it back
TO tho nearest player. llo missed it and ID
landed on his nose.
"Wot a yo tlnk, Jimmy" he yelled at one
Of the other players ''nis kid hit me on dc
nose wild do ballT
"Wy don't y smash Imp was Jimmy's
uulIind suggestion.
HAS ho got hig brotherP
"Nawl'
"Den will" and tho youngster fell upon
tho DISTINGUISHED outsider and smoto him hip
and thigh. Chicago Herald.
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