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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
PARENTS CRIMINALLY LIABLE.
More than half of all deaths occur b.

More IMAM haIT OF al ueatnS OCCUR De-
fore six years of age. An army of limo
cent, lovely children are swept needlessly
away each year. Parents are criminally
responsible for this. The death rate of
children in England is less than half this.
Acker's English Baby Soother has done
more to bring this about than all other
causes combined. You cannot afford to
be without IL.
HANAFORD'S PARK DRUG STORE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13

Chicago estimates that the gain to
the city from the political convention was
between 81 900, 900 and 5000, 900 left by
the 100000 visitors. No complaint is
made of the noise and confusion attend
ant upon the occasion.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-13
-E FIRST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH.

Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in
rious parts of the body, sinking at the
of the stomach, loss of appetite, fe-
Fishness, pimples or sores, are all posi-
e evidence of poisoned blood. No
Utter how it became poisoned it must
purified to AVOID death. Acker's Eng
b Blood Elixir has neUer failed to re-
I've scrofulous or syphilitic poisons.
d under positive guarantee.
ANAFORD'S PARK DRUG STORE.
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in several ways. Bowls and glasses
without covers may be used for jelly,
by cutting roundlof paper the size of
the top, and press down evenly upon
the jelly; cut another cover of soft pa
per large enough to push down on the
outside of the jar. Paper in bread
and cake tins protects the loaf from
burning and insures its safe removal
from the tin. BY this help tin with
holes in it may be used.
Laid over loaf of cake in the oven,
paper is also protection, but unless it
is warmed first the cake may settle.
Cut in strips and curled with the
scissors, writing paper makes a good
filling for pillows for hammocks, or the
large pillows sometimes used to show
off the elaborate "shams." Postal
cards and thin pasteboard can be cut
in strips for lamplighters; newspapers
for the same use are cut in strips and
rolled.
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A SUGGsTIoN-For some years past
it has heen q practice in st. Louis fol-
the Protestant churches to hold on
Thanksgiving days what were called
Union services; that is. two, three or
more churches of the same, or of differ:
ent denominations, to meet and hold
services in one church, the others be-
ing closed. The consequence has been
that about one half, possibly not more
than one third, of the people were
present, who would have attended
Service had all the churches been op-
en-. Now let every church in the city
lie opened on the Goth and services
held in each. Change ministers for
the day, you will, which may be u
very good plan, but hold services in
every church not only in the cltles
but in all the country churches where
minister can be had; ; and have a gen.
eral Thanksgiving all over, the land
81 Louis Christian Ad0ocdte.
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low wrought yesterday?n Shall moments

"How wrought yesterday:n Shall moments
now,
To question with vain tears, or bitter moan,
Since every word you wrote upon the sands
OF yesterday, has hardened into stone.
"How shall I work today?" o soul of mine:
To-day stands on her threshold, grt to lead
Thy feet to life immortal strive with fear
Deep pitfalls strew the way; take heed-takc
heed
We have all particular reason to
watch and pray, lest self too much
predominant. We should accustom
ourselves to hold our own comforts
and conveniences subordinate to the
comforts and conveniences of others,
in all things. A habit thus begun, in
little matters, might probably be ex-
tended, without difficulty, to those Of
a higher nature.
1t does not require great learning to
be a Christian and to be convinced OF
the truth of the Bible. It requires an
honest heart and willingness to obey
God.
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UTILIZING POTATO VINEs.-Some
one who evidently has an eye to econ
onny and utility advises the saving of
late potato vines, and adds: Spread
them thinly over the ground late in
the fall, and they will afford sufficient
protection through the cold weather.
When spring comes they will be found
so rotted away;as not to interfere with
the growth of the plants. They have
also the advantage of containing no
weed seeds, which is an item worthy
of consideration.
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Uses to Which Paper May be Put.

Paper, being nearly air-tight, vii
exclude cold, and should be used more
than it now is; builders place papel
between the boards and clapboards O.
a house, and we should do well to fol
low their example in smaller matters
Farmers have found that the extra
warmth secured by taking severa.
thicknesses of newspapers around the
inside of the hen houses, etc., has saw
ed extra food. A layer of paper undel
a carpet is preferable to straw, which
is sometimes used, and if the paper
made for this purpose cannot be obtain
ed, several layers of newspapers will
do nearly as well. Papers spread be-
tween bed coverings will take the
place of extra blankets. A folded pa
per is an excellent lung protector; one
over the chest and another around the
shoulders, under the outside garment,
would often save a cold and perhaps
pneumonia. Dissolved in flour paste,
newspapers make successful filling
for cracks in floors and elsewhere.
Scraps of paper, wet and scattered over
the floor, when sweeping, will save the
dust in the room as we'll as brighten
the carpet. Bits of paper with soap
suds, arc effectual in cleaning bottles,
and are easily removed with the Wa
ter.
Greasy dishes and bottles if first rub
bed with paper wash much easier: the
paper absorbs the grease, and is all the
better for kindling the fire. A grease
SPOT can often be taken out of a carpet
or garment by placing two or three
layers of paper over it, then put a
warm iron on the paper. The heat
softens the grease and the paper absorbs
it, and by changing paper and iron oc-
casionly all the grease will disappear.
Soft newspaper or tissue paper is pre-
ferable to cloth for cleaning lamp
chimneys, windows, mirrors, etc., as
it leaves no lint; also for knives,
spoons, and tinware after securing ;
and stove will not need blacking so
often if now and then rubbed with
paper. Scraps of writing paper or that
used on one side only may be utilized
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CHRISTIAN Observer.

A prevalent misconception is the
idea that in order to truly serve Christ
we must find some great thing to do.
Great things are certainly not exclud'
ed from Christ's service. But they are
accepted by Him not because they are
great, but because they are done to
Him. Their value consists in their
being thought of and taken up and
done as for Him. Herein is one great
condition and estof service-that it be
consciously and willingly done to
Him. Where this exists there will be
no questioning as to greatness or little
ness, highness or lowness; enough
that it be done to Him
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What Others Say.
Southern Christian, Advocate.

ONE WOMAN ELECTED.-It will be
noticed that at least one lay electoral
conference has elected woman to re-
present it in General Conference, and
at least two have elected women as re-
serve lay delegates. It has been de-
clared by the General Conference that
in all matters relating to delegates all
are Iaymen who do not belong to an
nuai conferences. This ruling, Oh its
face, includes bishops among laymen.
If it is argued that the ruling includes
women, bishops may sitas lay delegates.
The issue does not relate to anybody's
preference or predispositions, but is to
be determined by lay existing or to be
made. The General Conference will
probably appoint committee to di-
gest and prepare specific action on the
subject. Meantime, all can possess
their souls in patience. Worse things
can happen than sitting by the side of
Christian women On church councils.
If admitted, we hope it will be through
open, manly, unquestionable law, and
not through hasty, doubtful construc-
tion of equivocal disciplinary par
graphs.
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How to Make Children Lovely.

There is just one way, and that is to
surround them by day and night with
an atmosphere of love. Restraint and
reproof may be mingled with the love,
but love must be constant element.
"If found my little girl was growing
unamible and plain" said mother to
to us the other day, "and rejecting on
it sadly, I could only, accuse myself as
the cause thereof. So I changed my
management and improve every op-
portunity to prise and encourage her
to assure her of my unbounded affect
tion for her, and my earnest desire
that she should grow up to lovely and
harmonious womanhood. AS rose
opens to the sunshine, so the child
heart opened in warmth of the con-
stant affection and caresses I showered
upon her; her peevishness passed away,
her face grew beautiful, and now one
look from me behring's her to my side
obedient to my will, andhappiest when
she is nearest me-"
Is there not in this a lesson for al
parents? Not all the plowing or weed
ing or cultivation Of every sort we
can give our growing crops will do
for them what the steady shining of
the sun can effect. Love is the sun
shine of the family; without it not
character, or morality, virtue can be
brought to perfection.-Er
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The way wherein it pleases God to
answer our prayer, if we have a right
mind, will always pleasesus well.
Take care as to your associates. Not
only will you be known by the compa-
ny you keep, but you will soon become
like it.
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are crossed by stand
ing in our own light.
We often excuse our want of philan.
thropy by giving the name of fanati-
cism to the more ardent zeal of others.
This world is not so bad world
AS some would like to make 1t,
But whether good or whether bad
Depends on how we take IT,
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ANYTHING that concerns old john

Anything that concerns old john
Street Church, New York, is interest
ing to all Methodists. A notice III the
New York Christian Atl0ocate,, OF
November l, says: "The gospel is
preached there, and, under the care of
the pastor (Dr. w. w. Bowdish),
conversions are as usual; the class
meetings, prayer-meetings, young peo-
pies meeting fact, all the meet
ings-are we'll attended. Sunday,
October 2S, was it's 122d anniversary.
I'm the morning at 8 o'clock an old
heid, lltstL'HiH When NSsss over two hundred We're
present. The love-feast was followed
at 1890 by sermon by DR.. l.: H.
Clark, Associate Editor of the Chris,
tian AdUocate. Other services were
held during the day, and closed In the
evening with sermon by DR.. John
Hall, Of the Fifth Avenue Presbyte-
rian Church.
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Ancient Thanksgiving Days.

Thanksgiving Day was suggested,
doubtless, by the Hebrew feast of the
tabernacles, or "feast of ingathering
at the end of the year." Its history
in America began as early as 1921.
The occasional observance of such a
day, formally recommended by the
civil authorities, was not unusual in
Europe at an earlier date. In Hol.
land the first anniversary of the deliv'
erance of the city of Leyden from the
siege, October 8, 1875, was kept as q
religious festival of thanksgiving and
praise. -, =. .,,
In the English Church service, the
5th of November is SO celebrated, in
commemoration Of the discovery oi
gunpowder plot. ..
One of the most remarkable thanks.
giving customs on record prevailed In
Southampton and Easthampton, Long
Island, Montauk Point, which consists
of Q 900 acres, was owned by numerous
proprie.ors in these towns, and used
as common pasturage for stock. The
time Of driving the herds home to
winter was fixed at a meeting by the
town council, "and it came," says the
historian, "to be rule from the period
beyond which the memory Of man
runneth not, that the Thursday Of the
week following the return of the cat
tie from Montauk should observed as
day of. thanksgiving"
At an early period of New England
history, certain periods of prosperity
were often made the occasions of pub.
lie thanksgivings, or feasts, and often
day of fasting and prayer was turned
into a day of Thanksgiving by what
seemed all immediate answer to their
prayers. ..
Perhaps, to recall to our mind that
first Thanksgiving of the Pilgrim
Fathers may put US to the blush
Often on this day 1 have heard such
remarks as II have no thanks to give
I have nothing for which to be thank
ful," from lips that it would seem
might have had a life's work in franz
ing words Of praise and gratitude, so
blessed were they in he heal tn OF
themselves and their dear ones, while
from some fancied trouble this great
good was quite overlooked Table
Talk.
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Thanksgiving.
BY MARY L. DICKINSON.

Giver of good one gift DER all
Its wondrous greatness lifts;
Let tides of blessing rise or fall,
Thou art the Gift of gifts.
Having not thee, nothing own,
With thee all things are mine;
For good abides in thee alone;
And flows from thee to thine.
So when praise for length of days,
For health and peace from strife,
For tender care, that everywhere
Encircles human life;
When thanks 60 up for fullest cup
Or joy, or love, or grace
The glory lies In that mine eyes
In all can see thy face.
When waiting, trembling at thy feet,
Because thy tender will
Has changed thy gifts so fair and sweet
70 seeming woe and Ill;
Then with peace more full and deep
make my grateful song;
So wakest thou my soul from sleep, .
So mak'st my weakness strong.
How can we thank thee, o our God!
When every care or loss
Has lost the sting Of Christening rod
Before thy radiant cross?
Thine ears have heard no grateful WORD
TO show the thankful heart,
Yet every pulse of being stirred
Throbs praises that thou art.
IS. S. Times
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Bible Arithmetic.

Addition-"Add to your faith vitue
to virtue, knowledge; and to knowl
edge, temperance and to temperance,
patience; and to patience, godliness
goodness, brotherly kindness, and to
brother1y kindness, charity" (11,
Peter So. Add in your heart this
perfect number of seven graces togeth-
er and eff these things be in you,
and abounnd, they make you that ye
shall be neither barren nor unfruitful
in the knowledge Of our Lord Jesus.
Christ"
Subtraction" He that lacketh these
things is blind, and can not see afar
off, and hath forgotten that he was
purged from his old sinsn 11.
Peter i: g..
Multiplication-"Grace and peace be
multiplied unto you thorugh the
knowledge of God, and of Jesus our
Lord" (II. Peter :2). "He that min
istereth seed to the over doth min
lister bread for your food, and multi
ply your seed sown, and increase the
fruits of your righteousness III. Cor
inthians tx 19).
Division-"Come out from among
them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing
and I will receive you, and will be a
father unto you, and ye shall be my
sons and daughters, saith the. Lord
Almighty" III. Corinthians vi III, 18).
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Evils of Promiscuous Kissing Of Chill
dren.

There is common practice in vogue
Established in America more than in
any other country and deserving of
the severest criticiSm-which is at
once a great impertinence and thor
oughly reprehensible from a hygienic
standpoint. When any person OF
either sex or of any condition chances
upon a small child walking or rum
ming about, he Tor she, generally she)
considers it his privilege to kiss that
child if he happens to be pleased with
its appearance. Even when not par
ticularly pleased, from motives of
courtesy, he feels well-nigh obliged to
caress ''the dear little things" because
such attention has come to be consid-
cred sort of duty which grown per-
sons owe to the rising generation.
Entire strangers seem to think it i'm
perative. Imagine how the children
must suffer! Who can estimate the
possible harm arising from running
the gauntlet of Tom, Dick, and Harry,
or Jane, Sarah, and Mary, and Mes
DANES Brown, Jones and Robinson t?
Ailments, slight in the adult, may be
transmitted in this way and become a
source of much mischief among little
people. DR.. A. jacob recently called
attention to such dangers in connec-
tion with the diphtheritic and conta-
gious form Of follicular amygdalitis.
"This mild variety" he remarks, lis
that from which adults are apt to
suffer. With this variety, parents,
while suffering from slight sore
throat, kiss their children. To break
up a habit at once 80 cruel and so
wanting in good taste as the promiscu-
Gus kissing of children requires iron
clad conduct and strength of purpose
to bear with equaninlity the displeas-
ures of others. Let it be thoroughly
understood by relatives and friends
that young children are not to be kiss
ed by them without special invitation
by their parents. This will doubtless
give offense, for many care more about
their own personal pleasure than the
present and future of the children in
whom they take a passing interest.
A mother who exacts right conditions
of living for her child is bound to give
offense, especially here in America,
where the science of childhood is only
just beginning to be understood. Let
her bear it as best she may, consoling
herself with the thought that an Of
Tended friend or relative is of inf
nitely less Importance than the loss of
a child or child's health. 1t requires
great force of character to bring up a
family in the ways of health and
beauty. AS Mr.. Lincoln said about
being President, "If any one thinks it
is easy just let him try it."
[New York Medical Journal
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Scientists say that the savage has a
more acute sense Of smell than civil
lied people. When two savages get
together how they must suffer!
1t is a singular fact that man who
is second in command at home always
wants to rule the whole creation when
he gets outside his yard gate.
If every person would be half as
good as he expects his neighbor to be,
what a heaven this world would be!
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Pearl Of DQUs,

"If Christians could be shown that
it is their duty to withhold their stock
and patronage from railroads running
Sunday trains, and their advertise
and sanctions from Sunday newspapers
and their Endorsement from Sunday
mails, all these would soon become as
disreputable as tippling, and laws
against them would be secured with
no more difficulty.
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A receipt for money is simply primo
facie evidence of its payment. ......
Letters relating to matters Of bust
ness should be written with the most
scrupulous care and exactness.
Be not hasty to believe flying reports
to the disparagement of any one. ,.
No pleasure is comparable to the
standing upon the vantage ground o.
truth. .r
Unless we can cast off the prejudices
of the man and become as children
docile, and unperverted, we need nev
er hope to enter the temple of philoso
Iphy.
You will find that the mere resolve
not to be useless, and the honest desire
to help other people, will, in the quick
est and delicatest ways, improve your
SELF
Satan selects his disciples when they
are idle; but Christ chose His while
they were busy with their work, either
mending their nets or casting them
into the sea.
The seed of our punishment are
sown when we commit sin; the pun.
ishment itself is sure to come, sooner
or later, as the inevitable harvest ot
our sowing.
Daniel Webster, in an early confes'
sion of religious belief, wrote thus: 81
hold it my duty to believe, not what ]
can comprehend or account for, but
what my Master teaches me-"
There is no knowledge for which SC
great a price is paid as knowledge o1
the world and no one ever became
an adept in it except at the expense Of
a hardened and wounded heart.
Sorrow is not selfish but many per.
sons are, in sorrow, entirely selfish.
1t makes them so important in their
own eyes that they seem to have q
claim upon all that people can do fol
them.
A genuine conscience is a growing
conscience-one that is perpetually be.
coming more prompt, more keen, more
tender. It is in this mainly that the
growth of character consists. Where
there is no increase of moral excel
lence there is always danger of de-
crease.
We can see through one pane of
glass easily, but through ten placed to-
gether we cannot see, yet each is trans
parent. BY living day at time we
get along we'll, and all is clear; but we
cannot, with our finite vision, see
through all the purposes of God con-
cerning us.
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A witness, in describing Il certain
event, said : "The person saw at the
head Of the stairs was a man with one
eye named Wilkins"
"What was the name of his other
eye?" spitefully asked the opposing
counsel.
The witness was disgusted with the
levity of the audience.
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A correspondent of the Ohio Farme,
states that he kept plum tree from
curculious by sprinkling the ground
under the tree with corn meal. This
induced the chickens to scratch and
search. The meal was strewn every
morning from the time the trees bios
somed until the fruit was large enough
to be out of danger. The consequence
was that the fowls picked up the cur
culious with the meal, and the tree be-
ing saved from the presence of the in
sects was wonderfully fruitful.
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Some persons fancy that there is an
irreconcilable opposition between con-
servatism aud advancement. Two ex-
tremes epossible ;ultra-conservatism
which adheres to whatever is or has
been, regardless of the changes that
take place in society, and steadily op-
poses all modification to meet new con-
ditions; fanatical radicalism, which
hates whatever is or has been, and
breaks down and destroys either with
out having any thing to substitute, or
without being at the pains to inquire
how the substitute may be established i;
between these is true conservatism that
does not value thing for its age, but
for what it is; that recognizes the fun
damental principles of existing institu-
tions, and engrafts upon it whatever
may be necessary to adapt the whole
fabric more perfectly toa changed envi-
Torment.
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How to be Healthy and Wealthy.

Don't worry.
"Seek peace and pursue it."
Be cheerful, "a light heart lives
long"
"Work like Il man, but don't be
worked to DEATH" ,
Never despair. ''Lost hope is fata
disease.n
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Several European specialists have
made the curious observation that
acute rheumatism is more prevalent in
dry than in rainy weather.