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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

tive committee. T. NJ. Chapman, Middlebury
o. M. Barber. Arlington; II. c. Bates, st. Johns
bury w; L. Burnap, Burlington; z. NJ. Man
sur, Brighton; G. p. Hogan, sheldon; III. l..
Sowles, Alburgh; ID. J. Stafford, Morrisville; j.
ID. Denison, Randolph F. e. Alfred, Newport
II. l.. Clark, Castleton; W. A. Jones, Waits
field; l.. s. Hayes, Bellows Falls; w. W. Stick.
ney, Ludlow.
Speeches were made by Hon. Henry
Ballard and others. Several letters of
regret at inability to be present were
read, among them this:
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.
MY Dear Sir:-My engagements here forbid
acceptance of your invitation to meet the Re-
publicans who will assemble at Montpelier
next week. | rejoice to notice the loyalty of
the sons of Vermont TO the principles of the
great party-great in its accomplished histo.
ry, and great In its promise and possibility OF
future ID to our country. 1t should now be
commended to the young men of the country,
not alone for what It has done, but for what 1t
is. 1t is what 1t has become by its loyal ad.
herence, through years OF severe trial, to fun.
damental principles of good government. 1t
stands for national integrity, tor equality of
rights, for free ballot and n fair count every
where under the flag, for universal education,
for the impartial administration of law, for
good order and good morals, for sound cur.
rency and tor the protection of American in
dustry against every form of foreign invasion
or interference. With cordial good wishes,
yours sincerely, j. W. STEWART.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

Don't expect an advertisement to
bear fruit in one night You can't eat
enough in week to last you year, and
you can't advertise on that plan either.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY II, 1888.

THE fisheries treaty with Great Britain
was signed Wednesday night. Its pro-
visions are not yet made public.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

THE Senate passed the Blair education-
al bill, Wednesday, 80 to 20. The Yer
mont Senators voted in the affirmative.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
OUT OF THE OLDINTO THENEw. The
SELECTMEN'S NOTICE.

The board of civil authority for the town o.
Middlebury will meet at the town clerks OF
flee on Saturday, Feb. Is, at 10 O'Clock a. m.
TOR the abatement OF taxes.
GEORGE HAMMOND
w. W. CHAPMAN, Selectmen.
6w2 ii. ID. MAYNARD,
Mlddlebury vt, Feb. 8, lsss.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

JOB PRINTING of every variety at the lowest
prices consistent with good work and quality
of stock.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
A QUESTION:.
MIDDLEBURY. Feb. ]

Editor Register Having last evening
listened to the very able address of Prof.
Dickie, and being open to conviction, I
am constrained to ask the following
question, "DO the Prohibitionists of Mid
dlebury believe, ,and do they want the rest
of us temperance men to believe, that it
makes no difference, as far as the ques-
ton of protection to American interests
and industries is concerned, whether such
men as Blaine and Sherman, or Bayard
and Cleveland are at the head of our ma
tional affairs, or whether we send from
Vermont to Congress such men us Ed
munds and Stewart, or b. b. Smalley and
Hiram Atkins?'' G. d. NJ.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

The previous year the amount sold in
the county as reported by the commits
sioner was 1888 gallons; whole amount
of sales in cash, S4l4S.6l; cash sales to
other. towns, SlO577l; gallons sold to
other towns, l77s.
DR.. Bump answered number of ques-
tions put by Rev. Mr.. Thompson of Mid
dlebury, Prof. Yager and others and ex-
planned his action in various cases. The
report was accepted and adopted. The
commissioner couldn't say how many un-
licensed dealers there were in the county.
Rey. Mr.. Thompson didn't understand
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
OF vERMONT--District o
- Ahhfsnn.

y Addison, s..
The Probate Court for the District of Addi.
son:
To all persons interested in the estate of
Rollin Birchard, late of Middlebury, in said
District, deceased. GREETING:
BY the authority of the State of Vermont
you are hereby notified to appear before the
said Probate Court, at the Probate Office in
Middlebury, in said District on the 5th day of
March, A. D., lsSs, at 10 o'clock a. m, to
show cause, il any you have why the account
OF ID. Rider, administrator OF the estate of
said deceased, should not be allowed, and also
why the residue of said estate should not be
distributed to the parties entitled thereto.
Dated at Middlebury, in said district, this
18th day of February, A. D., 1883.
GEORGE f. KNAPP, Register.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17

Total number of gallons sold in the
five towns licensed.
Total amount in cash sold in the five
towns licensed ...................
Total number of gallons sold in 9TH
er towns. 80.
Total aT Ouut in cash sold in other
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
SALE OF LAND FOR TAXES.

The nonresident proprietors of the town
OF Goshen, in the County of Addison, are here
by notified that the taxes assessed by said
town within the last two years next preced-
ing this date remain in whole unpaid on the
following described lands in said town, to
wit II being the south two-thirds part of the
original right OF Lemuel Stewart, No. S, I'd
Division, decreed by Court OF Chancery
to Orren W. Philips; now owned and assess
ed to Viola Eddy, and so much of said land
win be sold ut public auction at the dwell.
ling house OF Ford Capen, in said Goshen, ON
Friday, the End day OF March, lSss, at one
O'Clock p. m, as shall be required to dis
charge said taxes with costs, unless previous.
ly paid. ,o
FORD CAPEN,
Constable and Collector.
Dated at Goshen, Jan. 2s, A. ID. lsSs. 5;3
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-02-17
T E r NJ S 4:

One Year, $l'oo
Six Months, 80
Four Months so
Three Months, 40
Advertising Rates on application.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
Specific Education.


Mr.. Vanderbilt pays his cook $4,000
a year, my boy, which is great deal
more than you or / earn-or at least it
is a great deal more than we get-be-
cause he can cook. That is all. Pre-
sumably because he can cook better
than any other man in America. That
is all. If Monsieur Sauceangravi
could cook tolerably well, and shoot
little, and speak three languages toler-
ably well, and keep books fairly, and
sing some, and understood gardening
pretty well, and could preach fair
sort of sermon, and knew something
about horses and could telegraph a
little, and could do light porter's work,
and could read proof tolerably, and could
do plain house and sign painting, and
could help on threshing machine, and
knew enough law to practice in the
justices courts of Kickapoo township,
and had once run for the Legislature,
and knew how to weigh hay, he
wouldn't get $4,000 year for it. He
gets that just because he knows how
to cook, and it wouldn't make cents
difference in his salary if he thought
the world was fiat and that 1t went
around its orbit on wheels. There's
nothing like knowing your business
clear through, my boy, from withers to
hook, whether you know any thing
else or not. What's the good of know
ing every thinga Only the sophomore
are omniscent.-Burdette, in Brooklyn
Ed1le
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
SAVANNAH, TENNESSEE THURSDAY, OCTOBER A., 1885,

What is the past history of these
most unique and extraordinary OF AZ
rican races? We are not likely to have
a complete answer to this question.
AS yet we have had only a glimpse of
them, and the study of their languages,
traditions and habits may throw light
upon their past All our present evil
dence points to the probability that
they have descended from the earliest
inhabitants of the continent. We
know something of the migrations of
the tribes around them, and there
may yet be found evidence to show the
correctness of the hypothesis that the
Aka north and the Batwa south of
the Congo, the Doko, of Abyssinia; the
Obongo, of the Gaboon, and the BUSH
men, of South Africa, are remnants
of one great family. Y Sun.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
One Dollar Per Year.
of education, or because OF the associa-
tions of their early home

of education, or because OF the assocla-
tons of their early home.
And this preponderance of widows
refutes the impression commonly held
and expressly suggested by the med
ical writer above quoted-that this sur
plus consists largely of those 'who are
in the industrial ranks because no man
hath married Them In the case on
the widows, at least, they are in the in
dlistrial ranks because some man hath
married them, but has not had the
strength or the continued life to support
them. Nay, farther, they are there be-
cause the fact of matrimony has encum-
bered them with others to Unsupported.
If every woman could go through life
with only the responsibility OF support
ing herself, even with mother and
sister or two thrown in, she would be
guaranteed comparatively easy time
of it but it is this necessity of being
both father and mother to group OF
small children that wears most upon
her. OF the surplus of widows over wi
bowers, as reported in Massachusetts, it
is safe to say that more than third
twenty thousand at least-have offspring
dependent upon them. Their actual
position refutes utterly the theory which
used to be SO prevalent, that it is not
needful to train woman for self-support,
but that we should train the men to take
care of the women. No doubt the has
bands of this vast army of widows would
have done this had fate permitted; but
the question is, who is to do it now?
So long as these women do the duty
thus thrown upon them, they may be
"surplus women" but they are as far
as possible from useless. And indeed,
when we look at any community that is
close around us, it is hard to find really
superhuous women anywhere. How
ever it may be in other countries-as in
live on some small investment, and
make us wonder how they employ them
selves-here everybody seems busy,
and there are barely enough unoccupied
women to fill the temporary vacancies
and act as reserve force in case OF
need. As we look around, it is difficult
to find any woman idle; the ranks are
! full, and no one is standing out. Even
those who are resolutely indolent, or
have thrown away their opportunities,
are oftener men than women, and for
those willing to work there are con-
stantly arising such new occasions as
to leave hardly any do-nothing class.
Tested by what we see in any special
community where we make observa-
ton, it can safely be said of the women
who seem to be in excess that they are
surplus only, not superhuous.- Harper's
Bazaar.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
DEVICES FOR CRlPPLES.
New Methods of Supplying the Defects @
Not Too Generous Nature.

New Methods of Supplying the Defects OF
Not Too Generous Nature.
"No matter how badly a person may.
be crippled, he or she is well able to
travel about without being bother
to any one in these days of progress"
Suppose the unfortunate has no
arms or legs, how then?' inquired a
listener.
''Just the same" retorted the first
speaker, manufacturer of mechanical
appliances for cripples.
Except in very rare cases, unless
person is actually bedridden, there is
no reason why they should notbc able
to move about anywhere. Why, in
short while we will have ready for the
market a new idea in the line of in
valid chairs. 1t will be so constructed
that the occupant, although pos
sessed of only one hand, will be able
to wheel himself up or down stairs
by simply turning crank. The
crank will set in operation four wooden
legs, with clinchers made of rubber on
the feet. which will grip the stairs as
it ascends or descends. In like man.
ner the occupant will not have to be
assisted in boarding street car or
even railroad train. The chair is not
cumbersome at all, as all the clock
like machinery is slowed away in IL
small box underneath the seat. Only
the very wealthy will be in position
to benefit from this idea, however, as
it is very expensive arrangement.
Another chair that promises to have a
wide field is one especially constructed
for persons having no arms or legs. 1t
is moved by a sort of side swinging of
the body. Then there are chairs for
use ON steamboats,, in the woods and
even for mountain climbing. A fact
not generally known is that nearly all
the railroad companies have invalid
chairs at all their stations along the
various routes, and any person desir-
ing the use of one can be accommodated
without extra expense. In one of our
cheap chairs a person is at liberty to
move about at the rate of six miles an
hour without any considerable outlay
of strength.
Confirmed invalids who have been
forced to lie abed for years may be
greatly relieved by means ofappliances
especially manufactured for such cases.
For instance, there are what we call
alleviators. These are used for lifting
people and suspending them from the
ceiling in the canvas net. This is very
handy cooperate when the bed is being
made up or when the patient is able to
bear turning about by the nurse. These
} are all comparatively new inventions.
AS for the old-fashioned artificial limbs
and noses, why, they are being i'm
proved upon, and that is all that car
be said of them. | shouldn't be sur
prised if people would be enabled tC
live with artificial brains pretty soon. y
, M Y. Mail and Express, .~
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mrs. Amelia Barr, the writer, is
described as nice old lady with white
hair
Margaret Sangster, the poet, has
the reputation OF being one of the
clearest-eyed and most sensible of her
sex.
With the exception of the compos-
ing room Jennie June has worked in
every department of a newspaper
office.
Tho two sons Of Joel Chandler
Harris, Julian and Lucien, are called
''Brer Fox" and "Brer Rabbit by
their friends.
Helen Mathers, the English author
ess, wrote the novel which made her
reputation in the hope of bringing
back her lover, who had left her in a
fit of anger.
George w. Childs, the Philadel-
phia editor, keeps three houses always
in readiness for occupancy. He can
sleep, therefore, in Philadelphia, at
Long Branch, or at Bryn Mawr, and
still be at home. He stops at any Of
his homes just as the fancy seizes
him.
"A. w. Longfellow, brother of the
late poet, is a prominent figure in
Portland, Me. He closely resembles
his famous brother, both in manner
and person. He is nearly seventy
years of age. He is described as a
great literary student, spending a
large part of his time in his study.
Mrs. Julia D. Grant is reported to
have received from the Generals book
about $3.50, 900, and has pension of
$4,000 from the Nation. She also has
the income from the $3.50, 900 raised by
George Jones from Jay Gould, james
Gordon Bennett and others. She
also has the income from 100000
raised.b George w. Childs. In other
words, she has the income on not far
from 81 100000.
M lola, in an interview on the
subject of journalism, ridiculed the
opinion that the work of a newspaper
man is a pastime. The public, he
said, were inclined to believe that jour-
nalists passed their time in cafes, drink
ing places and boudoirs. In his own
experience, newspaper life consisted
Of earnest work. The amount turned
out in the course of a single year by a
single journalist was truly amazing.
AT the San Francisco public library
they give every one who enters a red
ticket, without which he can not gel
out again. When he gets book al
the desk he gives up his ticket to the
librarian, and it is returned to him
when he hands in the book. BY this
plan, as ingenious as it is simple, any
body may safely be permitted to draw
as many books for reading as hi
chooses, with the certainty that he car
not carry any of them off with him.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
THOROUGH CULTIVATION.
Condemnation of Practice That Many
Authorities Commend.

condemnation OF Practice That Many
Authorities Commend.
The cultivation of various farm crops
is beginning to receive intelligent at
tention. The idea that corn or pota-
toes or other crops do not need culti-
walton because there are no weeds is a
mistake, or that in blowing or Guilt
waiting the roots of the crops ought to
be broken, and. the more that are
broken the better, is another mistake.
Or that we ought to use bull tongue
pillow and run deep and close to the
corn until the last blowing, and then
turn the soil to the corn and hill it up
well, splitting out the middle, is an
other mistake. The neglect to pillow
corn during harvest time for ten days
or two weeks, or let it go altogether,
is another mistake. Such mistakes
lose all the profit that there is in farm
ing.
The soil needs stirring every few
days, especially after each rainfall as
soon as it is in condition. If made fine
and level it acts as a mulch to retain
the moisture.
As to breaking the roots, let every
one with thimbleful of sense ask him.
self the question: What do plants grow
roots for? Answer: To support and
mature the stalk and seed. Does the
breaking of them facilitate their Office
work? Certainly not First of all the
soil needs breaking deep, and thorough
pulverization. After in cultivation the
soil should be kept in the best possible
condition to promote the growth of the
roots, retain all needed moisture and
admit the circulation of the air through
the surface soil. In doing this the
weeds should be destroyed. but the
soil stirred whenever il needs it, be 1t
ever so clean of Drainage Jour
Ral.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
HUMOROUS.

=" Was Rome founded by Romeo?"
inquired the pupil of the teacher.
"No, my son." replied the wise man;
sit was Juliet who was found dead by
Romeo"
Surprised Dame =" What! And
you have refused Mr.. DeGoodep l
thought you liked him." Lovely Daugh-
teri did, but none of the other
girls seemed to care snap for him."
--1rate dog owner" What did you
kick my dog forpn Citizen" He's
mad" Dog owner" No, he isn't
mad" Citizen" Well, I'd be mad if
any one kicked me that way. THE
Cartoon.
That's itr' exclaimed Mrs. Bas.
com at the concert, as the singers
came out again in response to an en-
core. make 'em do it over again
until they get the thing right bar
hngton Free Press.
-"Be mine" he cried with voice
surcharged with anguish. "Ifyou refuse
me | shall diem That was forty years
ago, and the heartless girl refused
him. Yesterday he died. Girls, be-
ware. -Binghamton Republican.
-"You are much taller than you
were year ago." said gentleman to
a friend. Yes; | have reformed; that
makes me taller" "And how is thatP"
"Well, as | have reformed | have be-
come necessarily more upright"
Dora" How did you fetch him at
last, dearPn Laura told him I'd
about made up my mind to become a
Sister of Mercy" Dora" How did
that affect himp" Laura" He asked
me if wouldn't practice on him as my
first unfortunate. Time.
AT sea, on his yacht, with fair lady by
He asked for kiss, but she chose to deny
him,
"Not here" cried the lady, in tones full OF
mirth,
although have not the slightest objection on
| earth"
-Harper's Bdzar.
Young Jacob from the back room)
"Fadder, ladder, dot baby has tum-
bled out of dot vindowm Mr.. Isaac
stein" Mein Colt in Himmel, vas dot
so? Go customer)-I sell you dot
coat for sayventeen tollar, und never
dake cent less. Vot you giffp"-N
u Sun.
Must Get Her Money Back
Customer Oo fruit selleD -"How
much for the plums, aunty?" Aunty-
penny piece, sah.' Customer
That's very high for plums, aunty'
can't you let me have four for five
centsPn Aunty-''No, sab; dem plums
cost mon dat. Epoch.
Scene at the Barracks-Pitou, or
returning from battalion drill, stroll'
along the corridors shouting viii
might and main: LEFT wheel, forward
ma-r-rchr' Adjutant Friston (open
ing the door1-..Four days guard
room to Private Pitou for initiating
the Captains voiee by bawling like ;
donkey. La RHtriose IRastre~
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
SUFFRAGE SELECTIONS.

Iowa has no less than ten women
county school superintendent.
TWELVE States have given women
the right Of suffrage on the school ques-
ton.
THE Government needs woman be-
cause she is different from man, and
views things from a different stand
point, aud only by the. combined coun-
sci of the two can the best results DO
attained. C. A. Dstnham.
One reason why favor woman suf-
frage is because we should have moro
Christian voters if the women were al
lowed to vote. would rather see o
woman walk up to ballot-box and de-
post her vote than the debauched cattle
of the bar-room.-R San, Jones.
OUR laws about dover, about divorce,
about defense against husbandly
squandering of estates, about the hold
ing of property, will never be what
they ought to be until there are great
number of women with scverest legal
acumen, able to shape statutes and
confront courts on these questions
DR.. Talmage.
WE need conscience in politics, and
that is the element women can infuse;
and where one man now is influenced
by woman's love and sympathy, or
swayed by her wonderful 'scepter,'
thousand might be influenced by her
vote. 1t is work for humanity. Why
need the distinctions of sex be made to
appearp--Farmer'S Friend.
OUT of the 10000 patents given out
during the year 100 are granted to
women. Massachusetts, Connecticut
and New Hampshire have produced a
number of women inventors, and their
patents are of all kinds, from dust-pans
to fire-escapes. New York ladies rank
well as inventors, and Iowa and Illinois
have each their quota There are
number of Ohio patents, and Missouri
and California make u fair showing.
IT will hardly be claimed that law can
do nothing toward discouraging vice or
encouraging virtue. This being the
case, it is not wonderful that women
who find the law exerting a direct in
fluence for harm upon their children
should wish they had the power them
selves to exert direct influence upon
the law.-Alice Stone Blackwell.
ONE thousand one hundred and eighty
one young women and girls attended
the free day and evening classes con-
nected with the Young Women's Chris
tian Association In New York last year.
There are free classes in stenography,
type-writing. bookkeeping, commercial
arithmetic, business training, drawing,
modelling and designing, retouching
photo negatives, physical culture, choir
music and dress-making.
Now that woman suffrage is to be an
, issue. and seriously discussed, its adj
) vance must be rapid. There can be
but one result. Lincoln said this nation
E could not long exist half slave and hall
5 free, and it must be as plain that a gov.
4 eminent by the people is something Of
a a farce when half of them are debarred
: from taking any active part in the gov
4 eminent. by reason OF constitutional
h provisions made by the other hail.
y EiihH b. Hays, IN Boston Gt0be-
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1888-10-04
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
A STRIKE.

Once upon an evening dreary,
AS pondered, sad and weary,
Ger the basket with the mending from the
wash the day before;
AS thought of countless stitches
To be placed in little breeches,
Rose my heart rebellious in me, as IT oft had
done before,
At the fate that did condemn me, when my
daily task was DER,
To that basket evermore.
John, with not q sign or motion,
Sat and read the Yankee Notion
With no thought of the commotion
Which within me ranked sore.
He, thought l, when day is ended,
Has no stockings to be mended,
Has no babies 10 be tended,
He can sit and read and snore
He can sit and read and rest him;
Must work thus evermore"
And my heart rebelious answered,
''Nevermore; no, neyermore,'
For though am but woman,
Every nerve within is human,
Aching throbbing, overworked,
Mind and body sick and sore,
Twill strike. When day is ended,
Though the stockings are not mended,
Though my course can't be defended,
Safe behind the closet door
Goes the basket with the mending and I'll
haunted be no more.
In the daylight shall be crowded all the work
that will do;
When the evening lamps are lighted, l vii
read the papers, too. --Setected