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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
FOREFATHERS' DAY.
THE CELEBRATION OF THE 26STH ami
vERSARY IN MIDDLEBURY.

VERSARY IN MIDDLEBURY.
The anniversary of the landing of the
Pilgrims was COMMUNICATED here last
Friday evening by the customary gath
ering at the Congregational church. 1t
was the 10th consecutive year that the
event had been thus observed by the peo-
pie of Middlebury.
A severe storm began in the late after
noon and ragged furiously all night, keep
ing at home many of the residents of the
village and entirely preventing those out
of town from coming. Nevertheless, a
fair-sized audience had gathered at the
church by o'clock. President Branerd
presided. The exercises opened with the
voluntary and anthem, "The radiant morn
hath passed away" sung by quartet
composed of Mrs. j. w. Pitts of Bur-
lington, Miss Cady, DR.. w. H. Sheldon
and Mr.. j. M. Thomas. Mrs. G. d. Mi
ner presided at the organ. The invoca-
ton was made by Rev. A. F. Keith, pas
tor of the Congregational church, who
v.
Then the familiar ode by Mrs. Hemans,
=" The breaking waves dashed high" was
sung, and Rev. Il. G. Thompson, pastor
of the Methodist church, offered prayer.
The singing of Memberships anthem,
=" waited for the Lord" followed.
Rev. G. G. McIntire, ID. d., of Pitts
ford, the speaker of the evening, was in
PRODUCED by President Branerd. DR..
Mclntire began by saying that he could
not hope to tell the people of Mddlebury,
who had for so many years observed this
anniversary, anything new about the Pill
grims. The most he should attempt
would be to bring out some of the lessons
which their lives taught. He is but a dull
student who does not appreciate the val
lie of such lives as theirs and cannot de-
rive from them instruction and inspira
ton. Great deeds are marked by monu-
ments, the purpose of which is to keen
green the memory of those events and to
lead after generations to emulate the ex-
amples set by those who participated in
them. So of this day. The story of it
is old, but it will bear frequent repeti-
ton. The hardships of the Pilgrims did
not begin with this day. After a long
delay they had received a grant of land.
and, the counsels of those of them who
believed the dangers of the unknown
country beyond the seas could be over
come having prevailed, they left Leyden.
From England they sailed three times, and
twice returned. Thus the summer was
consumed. At the last there were lO2 of
them. 1t was in the cheer less December
that they reached this coast. OF what
they endured on the voyage and after
their arrival we have some hints, but can
easily imagine more. The climate was
severe to degree unknown to them. 1t
was their task here in the wilderness.
5000 miles from civilization, in the OPEN
ing Of New England winter to make a
home for their women and children. 1t is
not strange that before spring half of
them were dead. But even then not one
of the survivors wished to return with
the May1ower. They were willing to
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
Children Cry for Pitchers Castoria.
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria.

A sailor on schooner lying in the
Chicago river had great surprise
While on deck he lit his pipe and threw
the match overheard. The whole sur
face of the river was instantly sheet of
flame, with the schooner in the midst,
The surface was covered with oil and re-
fuse from the neighborng gas works.
The fire department was called out and
the fire, the only damage
being about $500 to the schooner. This is
probably the first time department has
been called to stop river from burning
up.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
A SAD STORY.
Che Qlarbets.
VERMONT PRODUCE.

VERMONT PRODUCE.
AT Vergennes, Saturday, butter sold at
Is to p cents per pound, selections 25c per
pound eggs firm at q cents per dozen; fowls
so lie per pound chickens 10 to IA cents
per pound; turkeys, II to l5c per pouna; pota
toes, 30 to 4Oc per bushel; beef, live weight 5h
TO cents per pound; pork, dresse weight,
ga to q cents per pound veal and mutton, I
cents per pound dressed weight; lambs cents
per pound dressed weight; hay, 81 to sII per
ton and fairly active.
BOSTON PRODUCE.
DAIRY lots OF butter range from l6 to y cents
per pound and an extra lot might be worth %
cents but very few Offering at present.
The poultry trade was rather quiet on Mon
day, aud it was hard to sell turkeys at over IA
to Is cents. Chickens were slow at 10 to -
cents.
Eggs, potatoes, hay and straw were quiet
and steady.
Apples were very duh and no reliable sell
ling price can be given. Late shipments to
Liverpool resulted in heavy losses to ship.
pers.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
CTATE OF vERMONT-Distric Of Al
~ olson. "a. -

The Probate court tor the district of Addi.
son; " "i
To all persons interested in the estate of
Eliza HAY, late OF Shoreham, in said dis
trict. deceased. GREETIxG
you are hereby notified to appear before the
SAID Probate Court, at the Probate Office i'm
Middlebuiy, in said District. on the 18th day of
show cause. II any you have, why the ac'
count OF y. Barnum, administrator of the es.
taIe OF SAID deceased should not be allowed.
to. '''" '"oio-
Dated at Middlebury, in said District, this
2oth day OF December, A. d., 1885
o. LYMAN Il. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-12-28
Oie6.

yBlCkNELL-Diedi in this vii lage Dec 2N at
30 O'Clock, p. M, Mrs. Charlotte II. (Pow5rs1
Bicknell aged IS years. r.
WALkER-In Pawlet Vt, Dec. 81, 1888, of
pertonitis, Lewis Lawrence Walker, eldest
months 10 days. "
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
Character in Handwriting.

a certain number of men are calm, even
lived, SENSIBLE and practical. Men of that
class are almost certain to write plain, round
handstn which every letter is distinctly legi-
BILE; neither Very much slanted forward, nor
tilted backward; no letter very much bigger
than its neighbor nor with heads much above
or tails much below the letters not so distin-
guishcd; the letters all having the same gen.
eral uprightness and the lines true to the
edges of the paper, neither tending upward
nor downward. Exact, business like people
will have an exact handwriting. Fantastic
minds revel in quirks and streaners, particu-
larly for the capital letters, and this quality
is not infrequent i'll certain business hands,
Us if the writer's found q relief from the pro-
sale nature of their work in giving fourishcs
to certain letters. Firm, decided, downright
men a.e apt to bear Oh the pen while writing,
and to make their strokes hard and thick.
On the contrary, people who are not sure of
themselves, and are lacking self control,
press u%nevenly, and with anxious looking,
scratchy hands. Ambitious people are apt
to be ovcrworked; they are always in haste
and either forget to cross their It's, or dot
their is. They are also apt to run the last
few letters of every word into an illegible
scrawl. Flurried, troubled and conscience
twinged persons have a Grabbed apd uneven
handwriting.-St. Nicholas.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
The Novelist in Society.

The professional character of French lit
erary society makes one of the chief dis
tinctions between literature in France and in
England. An English writer does not con-
fine himself, either wholly or partly, to the
society Of his brethren in art; he does not,
perhaps, even prefer his brother novelist to
any intelligent person. He, too, is like Dog
berry, and seldom allows his gifts to appear.
He prefers to be received like any other gen.
tleman among his friends, leaving his literary
character TO be inferred from q Jest now and
then, or passing reference. Discussions upon
art and its methods have been gently but
firmly discouraged hitherto in his society.
The other society across the channel is not
like this. 1t is, above all things, professional.
The novelists form their group, as painters do
things to discuss. -Blackwood's Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
A. New Fire Detector.

An ingenious method Of detecting C fire in
its inactive stage, whereby better protection
is insured against fire In textile mills, ware
houses, large public buildings, ships, ETC., has
been advanced by tho fire brigade master at
Paisley, England. His system departs from
the heat alarm method and consists of an ar
rangement OF perforated pipes, which are led
through the interior Of buildings or the
lower decks Of scagoing vessels. These are
connected with all ordinary suction aud
force pump or pumps, either rotary or recip-
rocating, which, when set in motion, will in
hale smoke arising and discharge it at q con-
venient point available at all times.-Hart
ford Times.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
A Dog Mt the re1cnhonc.

Agood dog story comes from Manchester.
A bright witted girl telephoned to her father
at his office, asking if her dog "Curly" was
there. Reply came that he was. "Well,
take him up in your arms and hold the re-
ceiver to his ear; I want to tell him to come
home" said the girl. Her father did so. The
dogs countenance Wore, momentarily, n look
of astonishment at hearing: "Come home,
Curly; come homer in the feminine tones of
his mistress, but it took him only al instant
to understand what was wanted, and, the
door OF the office being opened, he made n
wild break for home as fast as he could co.
Woburn Advertiser.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
Effects of Electric 1i.l,t.

Electric prostration" may be called a new
disease. 1t troubles workers under electric
Light. Severe cases are reported from Creu-
sot, France, where m electric furnace is used
for quickly heating metals. The light ex-
ceeds 1000 candle power, and the men suffer
from it, not from the heat. After one or two
hours the workers have a painful sensation in
the throat, face and temples, tho skin be-
comes copper red, and an eye irritation be-
gins that lasts forty.eight hours, the dis
charge of tears being copious. after five
days the skin peels off. Dark colored glasses
somewhat mitigate the effects of this ire
mendous light, but not entirely.-New York
Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
Tho "Bowely's" Name,

"Where did the Bowcry get its name?
That's easy enough. Bauer is good Dutch
for peasant OF farmer. Two hundred and
odd years ago there was a road running out
from New Amsterdam. Along its borders
were the comfortable houses of the farmers
surrounded by green pastures and field:
OF waving grain. The bauer lived there,
Hence Bauery Or Bowery.-New York Even
inp World
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
Tho Time Keener.

"Mamma," said little Mabel, who had just
come home from church, "what made that
man in the corner say Amen so often while
the preacher was talkingr'
u know" said Willie confidently.
well, Willie" said his mother, "wby is
Its a way he has Of calling time on the
preacher ."-Merchant Traveller.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
The Haunts of Bacteria.

German scientists have just laid bare the
latest haunts of bacteria. The surfaces of
coins ere found to be coated with them, and
with species characteristic Of putrefaction.
Old bank notes and even new ones are alive
with micro organisms, which, in fact, would
seem to abound on all objects which are ex-
posed to frequent handling.-Chicago Her.
aid,
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
A Worthless Fellow.

"You are the most worthless man that
ever made a woman's life intolerable, john
And a week afterward she sued n railroad
company for 100000 damages for killing
John. The perversity of some women i
past comprehension.-Pittsb bulletin.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED.

To THE ~EpIToR-Pleasc inform your readers
that | have II positive remedy for the above
named disease. iy Its timely use thousands of
hopeless cases have been permanently cured. 1
FREE TO any of your readers who have consump-
ton if they will send me their express and
posi-. office address. Respectfully, T. A. SLO-
CUM. NJ. c.. ISL Pearl ct, New York.
sen 2Q.1y
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
What She VIII Gov

Brown taking Robinson home--Wtnt dye
s'pose your (hic) wife'll say t'morrer morn.
ing, Robinson?
Robinson-She'll Qic) shay new hat an
SUE dressh, Browny, ole boy, an b,gosh She
won't shay 'em Gic) moren oncs, either
Texas Sittinps.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03

When you make u mistake, don't look
back at it long. Take the reason Of the
thing into your mind, and then look for.
ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The
past cannot be changed-Hugh White.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03
Through the Sul,ur,,.

Passenger think the city We are nearing
must be Chicago.
Another PasSenger-Why7
Passenger-Because most of tho suburban
residences have cabbages planted in the
front yard.-The Epoch.
The Dickinson press., 1888-11-03

BLAIR d TRIpP,
P.o. Dickinson. Oak.
Range on Maggie and White Tail creeks. Own.
ers OF above brand. Also own all cattle branded
with compass and square. Horses branded M
"'o any p'r' VI animal sept. l2-ly
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08

REST WHEN You ARE Tired Ee-
lieve it is common error to increase
fatigue. There are cases where it should
be diminished. The thing is due to di.
minished vitality. Increased fatigue
further reduces the vitality. 1 have
often found, to my surprise, a good
night follow days absolute rest.
Any man who has done what, to q
man of his inches round the chest. is
forced marching fourteen days together,
knows the nervous irritation with which
he filings himself on the grass for the
next three days, unable either to move
or to lie still. The same nervous irrita-
ton publishes over work within the four
seas, though the work may net be so
obviously excessive as it is to leave the
cImp before sunrise and pitch Your
tent after dark. This nervous irritation
4 only be dealt with alb olute repose-
tiat-by. day as well as by night, with
the minimum of food.
When the day is begun without
bright voluntary craving for work, day
rest is indicated; and if it is not forth
coming insomnia will result. Perhaps it
IL part Of the some principle that neur-
algia attacks you when you are low.
Personally, l should advIse-give up
tobacco. But / know nay igDorance of
other men, so 1 limit myself to this
never use tobacco as a spur.-London
Spectator.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
Got a Crab.

She was sweet-looking girl of IS,
says the Detroit Free Press. and as she
stood in the water about kuee-deep her
figure was the envy of the fifty women
sitting in the shade under the raised
sidewalk. This girl knew it too, and
she was still posing for effect when she
gave sudden start and uttered a
scream. Then she started some more
and screamed again. and dozen of US
old bachelors rushed to the rescue
We had no sooner approached than she
began to kick and splash, and it was
full three minutes before we seized and
bore her TO the sands and laid her
down for investigation. By that time
five hundred people had gathered. A
great crab had seized her stockinged
toes and was hanging on with all
vengeance We had TO cut him off,
and when the poor girl got up and
limped away to the batAhouse, limpy
and Slimpsy and bedraggled and out
of shape, forty-nine of the women I'M
der the sidewalk looked after her and
chuckled and cried ont in chorus:
LIN just glad on it!''
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
DYNAMITE FOR LAYING E0USDATl

DYNAMITE FOR LAYING FOUNDATIONS,
-Paradoxcal as it may seem, the latest
thing for which dynamite has been en-
ployed is not the blowing up of build
ings, but, on the contrary. the laying of
foundations. The new development is
due to NJ. Bonnetond, Fiench engine
er. When a foundation has to be laid
in wet ground he bores hole from ten
to twelve feet deep and an inch and a
half wide. Into this hole he passes q
string OF dynamite cartridges, which is
then exploded. Not only is cavity q
yard wide produced by the explosion,
but the expansive force of the dynamite
drives the water out far beyond the sides
of this cavity, and it does not return
again for more more than half an hour
In the meantime the workmen clear the
cavity and introduce quickly setting cou-
crete, SO that when the water returns
again it cannot injure the foundation.
The method has been put into practice
during the building of an enceinfe al
Lyons, aud rapid rate of workir : Is
said to have been attained thereby
Chicago Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08

A VIENNEsK HoLIDAY.-The feast OF
st. Leopold, the patron saint of Lower
Austria, was kept as q close holiday in
Vienna, and there was a total suspension
of business. 1t is customary ON this day
for the Viennese to make excursions to
Klosterneuburg, where they drink the
white wine for which that town and its
famous monastery are famed. The
monastery boasts an enormous barrel
which contains fantastic mum Der of
hogsheads, and the fun of the day con-
sits for many persons in climbing to the
top of this huge receptacle by means of
a ladder, and drinking the white wine
ladled ont through tap at the top.
Trains were running from Franz Josef's
station ID Klosterneuburg every quarter of
an hour, and over L, 900 carriages andlcabs
travelled to the old town by road. In
the evening there was grand and noisy
return ofroysterers, singing and shouting
and ninding one somewhat of the return
from Epson on the Derby day.-St.
James Gazette.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
4 WOMAN'S DISCOVERY,

"Another wonderful discovery has
been made aud that too by lady in this
county. Disease fastened its clutches
upon her and for seven years she with
stood lis severest tests, but her vital Or
gans were undermined and death seemed
imminent. For three months she cough
ed necessarily and could not steep. She
bought Of us a bottle of DIR. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and was SO
much relieved on taking first dose tina!
she slept all night aud with one bottle
has been miraculously cured. Her
name is Mrs Luther Lutz" Thus write
". G, Hamriok & Co., of Shelby, n. @.
Get free trial bottle at LII. Hinrichs
Drug Store. 2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
Two Pictures of Farm Life.
THE OLD HOME IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

L.
have just returned from brief
visit to my old home among the noun
tains and granite hillsides of New
Hampshire. The average farm in that
country is say 100 acres, of which, per-
haps, fifteen to twenty acres may be
called, in a sense, arrable. On the old
homestead which l visited / found
growing say one-half acre of oats,
three. quarters of an acre of corn, one
quarter to one-half acre of wheat, a
few potatoes, and small garden. Not
to exceed twenty acres had been mown
and the hay nicely stored in the barn.
The buildings were IN excellent repair
and both inside and outside were as
neat as could be desired. In the wood
shed | noticed nicely stored away
years supply of fuel. The man who
now owns the place did not inherit it,
nor, if remember rightly, any other
farm. The farm is a fair sample of
the average in that township, twelve
miles from the nearest railway station,
and no manufacturing village in the
vicinity. 1t is purely an agricultural
district and not considered by any
means first class even in that State.
There are no mortgages on those farms
and almost every proprietor has some
little money at interest.
THE NEW HoHE IN THE WHEAT BELT.
The world is led to believe that the
wheat capacity of the Northwest is in.
eXhaustible. The fact is that northern
Minnesota and Dakota are pass
ing through the same state that
southern Minnesota and Iowa have
suffered; whereas the average wheat
yield used to be twenty Bushels in the
Red River valley, the average yield of
the State now is but twelve bushels.
1t costs IS to raise an acre of wheat.
Where is the profit? The history of
wheat farming in other portions of the
country is this: The prairie lands, the
first year they are broken, Will yield
twenty bushels This, perhaps, pays
for the farm. The second year it is q
little better. This pays for the ma
chinery and buildings. The third year
it falls off somewhat. The fourth year
is still worse. The sanguine farmer
says, well, this is a bad YEAR and
tries it again. 1t is still worse, and so
on till the farms are actually mort
gagged for the living expenses.-E:nne-
dp0Lis Pioneer Press.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08
Wiyes as Wage-Earners.

If man is real man, it is safe for
a woman to continue earning wages
after she is married, but | think there
are hundreds OF men to-day, yes, thou
sands, who have beeen ruined because
they were not compelled to support
their wives, says a writer in the Epoch.
If man who earns small wages mar
ries a women capable of earning as
much as himself, there are nine chances
to one that he will develop extrava-
giant habits because of the added in
come of his wife. If they could agree
and hold to the decision that they were
to live on the husbands income, and
let the wages of the wife accumulate
as capital for business in which they
both could engage, it would be we'll;
but their wages would probably be
largely dissipated in personal adorn-
ment, the passion for which, especial
ly among the middle classes, is the
bane of the American people. There
Is one class of women wage-earners to
whom ! have given much attention
who suffer considerably through their
own ignorance. | refer to the mar
ried women who work in factories or
at home. making under-clothing and
other articles, and who supplement
their husbands wages in order to COW
er their own deficient knowledge of
house keeping. Such women were
wage-earners before they were mar
ried, and never had an opportunity to
learn how to manage house, so that
after marriage they have to earn money
to supply their want of knowledge,
not only of cooking, but of sewing.
Such women buy ready-made clothes
for themselves and their children,
which, of course, are not SO durable as
could be had for the same money if
they made them themselves. Not know
ing how to economic in cooking, they
spend more money in that way than
they should. Out of three hundred
women wage-earners | visited in tene-
meut houses only five claimed they
were able to make bread. and only one
really aid make it. Only two were
able to cut and make garments for
themselves and their children. think
that these women We're all conscious
of their deficiencies, but they do not
know how to overcome them. They
have some spare time. but they waste
1t. Their cooking is of the most prim-
tive and unwholesome description, and
their meals are supplemented with
beer, whiN is looked upon as just as
much an article of diet as bread
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08

A SILEsIAN MAsCoTT.- York
World: At the last drawing of the
Prussian State Lottery the grand prize
of $4,000 went to well known Siiesian.
Curioualy enough, his father won the
grand prize just forty years ago, and
fifteen Years ago his uncle won half OF
the grand prize in the same lottery.
But the most startling coincidence in the
whole matter is that in every instance ii
was the same number that captared the
prize. That number ought to be one OF
the most popular heirlooms of the family.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-11-08

SOME ARTIFICIAL MEMORY A great
deal Of talk is at the present moment
going on about artificial memory, and
some persons seem to think that bad
memory can be turned into good one
No doubt constant practice will improve
the memory enormously. as it does with
actors, many Of whom can commit part
to memory in an astonishingly brief
space of time. But it is hard to believe
that anything useful can come ont of the
system of muemonics which the so called
professors teach. As a rule, making
notes or memoranda is likely to weaken
the memory, and the moro one intrusts
to that valuable faculty the more it is apt
to tain.-New York Evening Sun.